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by Jake Maia Arlow
Nina LaCour meets Alyson Derrick in this cross-country journey of identity, love, and friendships as Zoe tries to figure out her life, one train stop at a time.
Zoe's life has gone off the rails.
She banked on college being a fresh start, but instead she's leaving for fall break with zero friends and an ex-boyfriend, the latter being a real shock considering she's a lesbian.
On a cross-country train home, Zoe meets Oakley, who is also running away from her mistakes, and Zoe starts to wonder if they just might be able to help each other along before that train finally leaves the station.
"Profound, romantic, and evocative, Leaving the Station feels like talking to a friend about all of the big questions that cloud our adolescence. Reading this book will take readers on a deeply felt journey through love and identity that they'll never forget." —Camryn Garrett NAACP nominee and author of Friday I'm In Love
"Leaving the Station captures the messy, confusing, and perfectly natural complications of trying to find a way forward in a world that doesn't always give you an easy track to take in this sweet romance layered with very believable complexities around gender, sexuality, and faith." —Tanya Boteju, author of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens and Messy Perfect.
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Jake Maia Arlow is a Stonewall Honor author, podcast producer, and (reluctantly) Amtrak's number one fan. They live with their girlfriend and loud cat in the Pacific Northwest.
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