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*A New York Times Staff Pick* *An NPR Best Book of 2018* *A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2018* In this debut young adult novel from journalist (and noted YA lit expert) Jen Doll, three teens in Alabama learn to move on from the baggage that's been holding them back. In Jen Doll's young adult debut novel, Unclaimed Baggage, Doris?a lone liberal in a conservative small town?has mostly kept to herself since the terrible waterslide incident a few years ago. Nell had to leave behind her best friends, perfect life, and too-good-to-be-true boyfriend in Chicago to move to Alabama. Grant was the star quarterback and epitome of "Mr. Popular" whose drinking problem has all but destroyed his life. What do these three have in common? A summer job working in a store called Unclaimed Baggage cataloging and selling other people's lost luggage. Together they find that through friendship, they can unpack some of their own emotional baggage and move on into the future.
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About Jen Doll
Jen Doll is the author of a memoir and the young adult novel Unclaimed Baggage, which was a New York Times Staff Pick, an NPR Best Book of 2018, a Buzzfeed Best YA Book, and a Cosmopolitan Best New Book of 2018. She has written for The Atlantic, Elle, Esquire, Glamour, GQ, New York Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Vice, the Village Voice, The Week, and many other publications..
About the Narrators
Sandy Rustin is an
actress and playwright. Her sketch comedy musical about parenthood, Rated P (For Parenthood), opened to
critical acclaim off Broadway at the Westside Theatre in 2012; her one-act
comedy, Fireworks, recently won the
seventh annual Nor’Eastern Playwriting competition; and her newest full length
play, The Cottage, was selected as
part of Midtown Direct Rep’s 2013 Theatre in the Loft Reading Series. A
graduate of Northwestern University, she currently lives in New York City.
Suzy Jackson is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator whose readings include several novels by Charlane Harris, Jodi Picoult, and M. L. N. Hanover. She was co-winner of an Audie Award in 2018 for Best Multi-Voiced Performance.