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Healy, Nick, Editor

Love & Profanity

223 pp. | Capstone/Switch | March, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-63079-021-7 $16.99

(4) YA Also edited by Kristen Mohn, Nate LeBoutillier, Lindsy O'Brien. This collection of forty-three autobiographical short stories runs the gamut of high-school topics: family, friends, class, crushes, parties, awkwardness, bullying, sex, and more. Featuring such YA authors as Carrie Mesrobian, Steve Brezenoff, Pete Hautman, and Joseph Bruchac, the stories are painful, humorous, embarrassing, nostalgic, and insightful. But, as with many collections, some tales are stronger than others. Ind.

Reviewer: Randy Ribay