“I guess we should’ve answered the phone,” I said. "If it weren’t so heavy, I might have thought the whole thing was a hoax - that he wasn’t in there, wasn’t even dead." If it weren’t so heavy, I might have thought the whole thing was a hoax - that he wasn’t in there, wasn’t even dead.īut there was no mistake the mortician had his wallet, along with a few of his other belongings. The white ceramic vase looked fake, like a prop in a movie, with little peach flowers frolicking around the rim. “Jesus, Susannah,” she said, one hand over her chest.
She’d been inspecting a letter when she heard the thud, and she jerked up at the sound. I set the urn down on the kitchen table next to my mother’s visual to-do list - a towering mound of receipts, mail, and miscellaneous clutter. As an Orange, California native, Smetana also brings the Southern California setting alive in a dreamy burst of color.Ĭheck out below the (stunning!) cover for The Midnights for an excerpt of the upcoming novel! Smetana draws from her own experience writing music and playing in bands to tell her story of Susannah struggling to find her voice. However, it slowly becomes clear that she's not the only one in her family keeping secrets, and the revelations will shake her life once again.
Her mother moves her to a new state, where Susannah realizes she can reinvent herself as a rockstar in her own right and become the confident face of a band. But when Susannah's father dies, her entire life is uprooted. Smetana's debut young adult novel follows teenager Susannah Hayes, who's trying to drag her aging rockstar father out of his past long enough to pay attention to her and her own musical talent. And though it's not hitting shelves until March 6, we have an exclusive excerpt to introduce you to her gorgeous story right now. Its musical prose and moving characters will stick in your mind even after you've stopped reading. You know when you get a song stuck in your head and you find yourself humming it all through the day? That's like The Midnights by Sarah Nicole Smetana.
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