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Everything you wanted to know about Byuck but were much too discriminating to ask ( a very brief interview with the author)Is Byuck the story of two f r i e n d s, but you're not sure which two friends?Yeah, kinda.Is byuck the overwhelming feeling of having your whole life in front of you yet no idea which things to do are the important things to do?If you want, I guess.Is carrying Byuck on public transit more likely to make me new friends or get me mugged?Why not both?Is it okay if I send Byuck to family members with no sense of humor who are likely to be outraged and complain on Nextdoor?So long as you pay full price.2000 seems like a long time ago. Do you expect me to believe they had such things as sexual hangups and miniature golf?That's the magic of fiction. Anything's possible I'm writing a paper on Provo in the year 2000. Can I count this as a primary source?Who's your professor?

Meet Julie: To know her is to love her. The only bad things to have happened to her are too many good things. When she walks down the street, birds call her name and the sun smiles more broadly.I do not know how you will stand her.**Hilarious, subversive, reflective, and poignant, this novel is a revolving portrait that perfectly captures the BYU single experience and the internal and external tensions faced by Latter-day Saint women.-Katherine Cowley, award-winning LDS authorReading this book is like catching an affectionate wink from the guy who sits on the back row in Gospel Doctrine class smiling to himself as he does crossword puzzles on his phone so that you think he's not listening but who always comes out with the comment that turns the discussion into something bigger, something that matters.Jepson treats his characters-these glorious, quirky, hilarious young people trying to figure out their places in the world, trying to understand their own hearts-with humor, yes, but also with a subtle tenderness, so that we recognize their yearnings.This book is as fun as a pick-up game of Pictionary, but just when you think it's all Peanut M&Ms and Twizzlers, holiness appears as if on a silver tray passed by the deacons.The ending sneaks up on you like your home teacher (minister) on a unicycle bearing mint brownies, and, like him, is sweet and surprisingly healing.The sunset our Classic Protagonist rides off into is a different sunset than she had thought she was aiming for, a better sunset, and that makes all the difference. It makes this book true.-Darlene Young, author of Here