Run Away With Me (2025)

Young Adult Fiction / Romance / LGBTQ, - Young Adult Fiction / LGBTQ, - Young Adult Fiction / People & Places / Europe -

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Brian Selznick

04/01/2025
Overview
<b>From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author/illustrator Brian Selznick, a profoundly romantic YA novel about two boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.</b><p></p><p>"I'm going to call you Danny. What are you going to name me?"</p><p>"Angelo."</p><p>Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome. As his mother spends the day at work in a mysterious museum, he wanders the ancient sites and streets. Soon after his arrival, he encounters a shadow... who becomes a voice... who becomes a boy his age. Angelo.</p><p>Soon Danny and Angelo are spending as much time as they can together, piecing together stories of the city while only gradually letting their own histories be shared. Attraction leads to affection, and affection leads to both an intimate closeness and a profound fear of what happens next. Danny has never really had a home, or known the love of another boy. Angelo seems to have more experience... but he also has secrets just out of Danny’s reach.</p><p><i>Run Away With Me</i> is a stunning creation, weaving words and illustration to tell the story of a transformative love over the course of one Roman summer.</p>
Original Language

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