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This Song Will Save Your Life: A Novel

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A powerful coming-of-age story about an outsider who finds herself when she enters the underground music scene.

"Very much of the moment.” —The New York Times
"If you’re a music junkie who also loves YA, read it alongside Len Vlahos’s The Scar Boys or Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park.” —Janet Geddis, Avid Bookshop
Sales gets everything right.” —MTV.com

Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski's strong suit. All throughout her life, she's been the butt of every joke and the outsider in ever...

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