Funny Story
Readers rate it 4.2 (1.1K on Hardcover)
401 pages · Released Apr 23, 2024 · Penguin
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Funny Story parent’s guide: what’s inside
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LGBTQ+ themes
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A note for parents
Funny Story is an adult contemporary romance centered on heartbreak, healing, and unexpected connection between two very different people. While the tone is largely lighthearted and funny, the book contains adult-oriented content including moderate profanity, sexual references and scenes, and alcohol use. The themes of infidelity and romantic disappointment are central to the plot, and the characters process emotional pain throughout. This is firmly an adult novel not intended for teen readers.
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From the publisher
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more! Daphne always loved the... #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more! Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?
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- Fiction
- Loveable Characters
- Strong Character Development
- Character driven
- Not Diverse Characters
- Diverse Characters
- A mix driven
- Weak Character Development
- Plot driven
- Unloveable Characters
- female author
- funny
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ISBN 9780593441282 · Penguin