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You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone Hardcover – 2 January 2018

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"Heartfelt, deeply moving." --Buzzfeed
"Dark and thought-provoking." --Publishers Weekly
"A stunning debut." --VOYA

A poignant, lyrical debut novel about twins who navigate first love, their Jewish identity, and shocking results from a genetic test that determines their fate--whether they inherited their mother's Huntington's disease.

Eighteen-year-old twins Adina and Tovah have little in common besides their ambitious nature. Viola prodigy Adina yearns to become a soloist--and to convince her music teacher he wants her the way she wants him. Overachiever Tovah awaits her acceptance to Johns Hopkins, the first step on her path toward med school and a career as a surgeon.

But one thing could wreck their carefully planned futures: a genetic test for Huntington's, a rare degenerative disease that slowly steals control of the body and mind. It's turned their Israeli mother into a near stranger and fractured the sisters' own bond in ways they'll never admit. While Tovah finds comfort in their Jewish religion, Adina rebels against its rules.

When the results come in, one twin tests negative for Huntington's. The other tests positive.

These opposite outcomes push them farther apart as they wrestle with guilt, betrayal, and the unexpected thrill of first love. How can they repair their relationship, and is it even worth saving?

From debut author Rachel Lynn Solomon comes a luminous, heartbreaking tale of life, death, and the fragile bond between sisters.

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2 January 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 1481497731
ISBN-13 : 978-1481497732
Reading age : 14 - 17 years
Dimensions : 13.97 x 3.05 x 20.96 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 853,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 860 in Fiction About Siblings for Young Adults
- 1,179 in Fiction About Sisters
- 984,920 in Textbooks & Study Guides

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A Top Ten Winter 2017-2018 Indie Next Pick
A Spring 2018 Indies Introduce Selection
Justine Magazine's Most Anticipated Books 2018

"Heartfelt, deeply moving." --Buzzfeed

"[A] dark and thought-provoking debut novel." --Publishers Weekly

"Solomon has created two distinct voices for Adina and Tovah. Neither girl is perfect, but both are realistically drawn as young women on the cusp of adulthood struggling with grief, guilt, and anxiety while trying to figure out their place in the world." --School Library Journal

"A stunning debut." --VOYA

"A well-executed, somber study of the devastating impact of incurable disease on a family." --Booklist

"Compelling . . . readers will appreciate this story of heartbreak and, ultimately, family resilience." --BCCB

"This story unfolds as twin sisters search for common ground while navigating the complexities of life, love, and the devastating realization that their fates are already sealed. I cried knowing that each twin would suffer immeasurable loss, yet only one would succumb." --Stacey Haerr, Warwick's (La Jolla, CA)

"An honest and heartwarming story about luck, love, and what it means to trust your fate." --Kim Bissell, Broadway Books (Portland, OR)

About the Author

Rachel Lynn Solomon is the author of You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone, Our Year of Maybe, Today Tonight Tomorrow, and We Can't Keep Meeting Like This. She is a Seattle native who loves rainy days, her tiny dog, tap dancing, old movies, red lipstick, and books with flawed, complicated characters. Learn more at RachelSolomonBooks.com.

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Trish Knox

All the feels

Reviewed in Canada on 5 September 2018

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Takes your heart apart and puts it back together again.

kirtida gautam

Story of sisterhood.

Reviewed in the United States on 28 April 2019

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“We are a doomed family—but we are not done fighting yet. One thing is certain: before I go, I am going to make a hell of a lot of noise.”

At the heart of it, this is a book about finding back your sister, even when she hurt you, even when you hurt her.

In this deep-felt story, one of the twin sisters is tested positive on a Huntington’s disease, a rare degenerative disorder, and one is tested negative. Rachel Lynn Solomon strings in the pains and traumas what means to live life with certainty and what it can mean to live in the absence of it.

What does one do when she knows she is doomed, one way or the other, and is there salvation in that painful certainty. Can a person choose to live decently when she realizes life hasn’t been fair to her from the very beginning?

Through the story of Tovah and Adina, the writer answers some of the aforementioned questions, with dramatic ups and downs.

Adina is a complex three-dimensional character. She isn’t a pitch-perfect person, but her struggles bring the reader to question their own moral compass. She is so real.

The story of losing and finding a sister, one of the closest relationships, depicts what truly matters when time is ticking.

My favorite lines from the book:

· Textbooks and exams don’t have emotions. They’re much safer.

· I’ve spent my entire life feeling different because I speak another language, because I don’t celebrate the same holidays as most people, because I don’t call my parents Mom and Dad.

· The piece is so beautiful, I ache right alone with it. It is hopeful, then hopeless, then flitting between the two as thought it cannot make up its mind. (Lovely lines.)

· As a kid, I couldn’t stand it when people said “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays.” It’s easy to be inclusive, and yet most people just don’t care.

· What is it about bad movies that make them so much better than good movies?

· I spent the next few years consumed by Holocaust literature. Consumed by trying to find a why somewhere in all that history, heartbroken when I couldn’t. You can spend lifetimes searching tragedies for reasons why.

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D.M.

Beautiful, heartbreaking story of sisterhood and friendship

Reviewed in the United States on 2 January 2018

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I absolutely adored this stunning debut by Rachel Lynn Solomon, a story of two very different sisters who clash at every turn but need each other to survive. Adina and Tovah are complex, beautifully written characters. Their layers of humanity, flaws, humor, and determination make it impossible to take sides in the fight that keeps them apart when they need each other the most, and even as they lash out at each other, your heart breaks for both of them. One of them will die of Huntington’s disease, and the other will not, and throughout the book we process the information along with them, progressing through the stages of grief by their sides. By the end, I felt so personally invested, I felt that grief palpably. Solomon does a masterful job creating multidimensional characters who dare to do and say the wrong thing, to risk unforgivable acts and cruel words, to push each other, and the result is two of the most fascinating characters I can remember reading in recent history. This is truly a rare book.

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Kelsey Rodkey

Beautiful in so many ways

Reviewed in the United States on 3 January 2018

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There is not a single thing I dislike about You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon except that bad things happen to the characters. I want all the best things to happen to them and, sadly, only some good things happen. Despite that, I absolutely love this book.

The journey Adina and Tovah go through is filled with complexities, raw emotions, and realistic heartbreak. This book will most likely make you cry, or at least tear up, with its beautiful writing and intense story line. It's full of unapologetic, passionate girls; feminism; Judaism!!!; a mental and emotional rivalry for the ages; and lyrical prose.

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone features a great family dynamic with struggles, love, and unique bonds. The way Judaism becomes a comfort for Tovah and something to rebel against for Adina is a breath of fresh air in the YA book world. I've started reading more #OwnVoices stories with casual (not the main focus) Judaism and I'm learning without having anything shoved down my throat. I enjoyed the Hebrew in the book, the struggle with beliefs in a world where medicine rules, and overall, it was just a delightful mix.

Highlights of the dual POV:

Adina: musical, lyrical writing, intense, confident, unapologetic, rebellious

Tovah: clinical writing, driven, sweet, heartfelt, timid, faithful

Content warnings: student/teacher (kind of) relationship, suicidal idealizations, mental health struggles re: illness........I do want to point out that these are addressed and "resolved." This is not a book devoid of hope and the morality of all is discussed delicately.

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Sydney Springer | sydneys.books

The Best Debut in 2018

Reviewed in the United States on 15 August 2018

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Do you ever finish a book and then want to cry because you didn’t want it to end but the ending is perfect and everything is perfect and wow reading is amazing??? Because that's how I felt reading this book.

TW: self harm, suicide, depression, mature content with older characters, fatal disease (Huntington's)

I picked up this book completely on a whim. It has a catchy title, beautiful cover, and it's contemporary so you know the biggest contemporary trash dumpster is going to be all over it. I was so surprised and engrossed in this book that I read it almost completely in one day and ignored all my responsibilities to do so (sound familiar?).

What I liked about this book: everything. It covers some really sensitive topics while also focusing on a set of twins, each with a distinct, unique voice, and contains loads of diversity. The main characters are Jewish, with one of them struggling to understand and cope with her faith as she watches her mother die slowly and painfully for Huntington's Disease, the same disease she carries the DNA for and will one day manifest. One of the twins plays the viola and has huge inspirations, while also experimenting with herself and some older men. The other twin is more focused on getting into her dream university, and refuses to let anything--including high school romance and parties--interfere.

The discussion of faith and trials, as well as growing up with a certain heritage and deciding if you will continue to accept that identity as you leave the home is super prevelant and rarely seen in young adult literature. I absolutely love these discussions, and if you enjoy that I would recommend as well The Names They Gave Us and Little Do We Know. Not only that, but we see a set of twins who fell apart whose relationship is completely realistic. I can easily see both sides. We see the parents who have favorites, the anxieties they feel towards their own identities and college, and all of it was so beautiful and real and I loved it.

My only complaint would be some of the graphic scenes. There is a definite content warning on this (see the spoiler) as well as some inappropriate scenes for one of the twins. She is aware of her sexual appeal, and let's just leave it at that. The mental illness representation was fabulous, and I think the story focusing on Huntington's Disease not only brought awareness, but also was emotional, incredibly important, and the perfect unique quality that hooks the reader without them knowing the entire plot. This is not just another fatal illness story. Please pick this up if you are a mature reader and in for a good cry. I am in love with this book.

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