A remarkable debut that has been called a hybrid of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, The Center of Everything is the fictional story of 10-year-old math prodigy Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother, Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be. Author Laura Moriarty was a recipient of the George Bennet Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy.
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“Realistic and familiar as a summer day in Kansas—brave and gritty, strong voiced and spare.”
— O Magazine
“A winning first novel. A+”
— Entertainment Weekly“A warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom.”
— New York Times“A sweet, often comic series of tender moments spun from real-life battles.”
— Christian Science Monitor“So infectious that one never wants to put it down.”
— Library Journal“A pleasantly wry, spunky debut…Moriarty’s gutsy opener is hard not to like.”
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Laura Moriarty is the New York Times bestselling author of The Center of Everything, The Rest of Her Life, The Chaperone, and other novels.
Julie Dretzin, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actress who has appeared in Breaking Bad and several motion pictures, including the film adaptation of Alex Flinn’s Beastly.