If Youre Out There, Katy Loutzenhiser
If Youre Out There, Katy Loutzenhiser
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If You're Out There

Author: Katy Loutzenhiser

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/05/2019


Synopsis

“Funny, engrossing, and one-of-a-kind. If You’re Out There completely swept me away.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Leah on the OffbeatPart whip-smart suspense tale, part touching story of friendship, this is an extraordinary debut about a determined teen trying to solve a mystery no one else believes in.After Zan’s best friend moves to California, she is baffled and crushed when Priya suddenly ghosts. Worse, Priya’s social media has turned into a stream of ungrammatical posts chronicling a sunny, vapid new life that doesn’t sound like her at all.Everyone tells Zan not to be an idiot: Let Priya do her reinvention thing and move on. But until Zan hears Priya say it, she won’t be able to admit that their friendship is finished.It’s only when she meets Logan, the compelling new guy in Spanish class, that Zan begins to open up about her sadness, her insecurity, her sense of total betrayal. And he’s just as willing as she is to throw himself into the investigation when everyone else thinks her suspicions are crazy.Then a clue hidden in Priya’s latest selfie introduces a new, deeply disturbing possibility:Maybe Priya isn’t just not answering Zan’s emails.Maybe she can’t.

About Katy Loutzenhiser

Katy Loutzenhiser is a graduate of Bowdoin College who trained in comedy with the iO and Second City theaters in Chicago. Katy made her YA debut with If You’re Out There and lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at www.katyloutzenhiser.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

This was totally not what I expected. Well, that’s not quite accurate. This is exactly what I expected, but I have learned to expect the opposite of my expectations. When I hear “young adult contemporary mystery,” I want to expect exactly what it sounds like - a mystery for young adult readers set in......more

Goodreads review by Tucker

Edit: I read this in the height of the my depression. If I have the time, I will re read and review it again. ❤ INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR: Tucker: 1. How long did it take you to write If You're Out There? Katy: Drafting the book took a little over a year. (I'm a slow writer; I wish I could change that......more

Goodreads review by Gail

This is one of the most heartfelt testaments to female friendship I've ever read--it plunged me back to a time when indeed "ladies before mateys" was the way we lived. In Katy Loutzenhiser's YA debut, Zan's best friend Priya ghosts her, but the story of their long and close friendship is told in fla......more