Starry Night
A Novel
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Sometimes one night can change everything. On this particular night, Wren and her three best friends are attending a black-tie party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the opening of a major exhibit curated by her father. An enormous wind blasts through the city, making everyone feel that something unexpected and perhaps wonderful will happen. And for Wren, that something wonderful is Nolan. With his root-beer-brown Michelangelo eyes, Nolan changes the way Wren's heart beats. In Isabel Gillies's Starry Night, suddenly everything is different. Nothing makes sense except for this boy. What happens to your life when everything changes, even your heart? How much do you give up? How much do you keep?
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Gillies's (Happens Every Day) first YA novel traces the rise and fall of a young artist's first love and how it changes her course. High school sophomore Wren is eager to spend her junior year abroad, studying art in France at Saint-R my, where Vincent van Gogh created The Starry Night, her favorite masterpiece. But that's before a magical evening at a Metropolitan Museum of Art event orchestrated by her museum director father. There, decked out in her mother's precious Oscar de la Renta gown, Wren is swept off her feet by a handsome young musician, who appears to be just as enamored with her. Over the next few weeks their feelings for each other intensify, making Wren lose sight of her dream of going to France. The enchantment of the couple's first evening together outshines the rest of the novel, making subsequent conflicts, squabbles, and betrayals anticlimactic by comparison. Still, Wren's rude awakening from her fairy-tale happiness will be felt deeply, alerting romantics to the danger of losing oneself amid the dazzle of infatuation. Ages 12 up.
