Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here
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When her beloved TV show is abruptly canceled, Scarlett finds herself without an outlet for her obsessive fanfic writing as her fave message board trickles to a few remaining die-hard stragglers. Meanwhile, her longtime crush and fellow loner Gideon starts earning the attention of beautiful-but-basic Ashley. Scarlett s entire world has imploded. All she s got left to live for is a genuine but admittedly unconventional friendship with her geriatric lesbian neighbor, Ruth. Desperate for an escape, Scarlett takes to the message board, trying something different this time, writing an epic fanfiction narrative about the kids from her high school. But will Scarlett be able to experience IRL high school dramas as fully and vividly as she depicts them online? Will Gideon ever see their relationship as clearly as the shippers do? Or will she forever be relegated to the message board, alone?
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But maybe the most valuable thing she taught me is the importance of trying to understand people who are different from you, even though it's so much harder than writing them off, because it might make you admit something to yourself that's painful. Sometimes you won't be able to understand, and that's okay. It's the trying, and realizing the importance of trying, that makes a person really special.
— Loved the message of this book! Try to understand people instead of judging them.
oh my goshhh
I loved this so much, I love Scarlett so much, this is probably the YA book that I have felt TeenRenata could have most identified with. (The previous thing TeenRenata could have most identified with: Liz Lemon's high school reunion flashbacks on 30 Rock.)
It's so smart and funny and compassionate, not only for Scarlett but also for all of its characters (even when Scarlett herself is not, yet).
It also felt like the most realistic portrayal of online fandom I've seen, including the weirdly-not-creepy online-friend-mentorships that come up between younger and older fans? And also the way Scarlett identifies fandom as being a feminist act of reclaiming–that's something I've seen thinkpieces about but maybe not explicitly addressed in fiction before.
ugh this book is so funny and great, all you nerds should definitely read it
