Anita Kelly dedicates their newest rom-com, How You Get the Girl, to “every queer and trans person in Tennessee. Your joy will outlive the cruelty of your government.” A teen librarian by day, Kelly is aware of intimately how exceptional educators could make all the distinction in the world.
Julie Parker is having fun with her first season as the head coach for East Nashville High’s girls’s basketball group. By day she works as a fundraiser, however after college, for just a few enjoyable months yearly, she’s the coach each scholar goals of having—as a result of Coach Julie understands youngsters. She’s engaged, approachable and supportive of her group, each on the courtroom and off. It’s fantastically evident from the very first pages, as Julie adapts to and charms a tough new scholar, Vanessa Lerner.
Vanessa’s aunt and new foster mom, Elle Cochrane, is an ex-WNBA star who hasn’t performed basketball in eight years and is looking for equilibrium in her and Vanessa’s new regular. Elle doesn’t get commonly acknowledged by the public any extra, so she finds Julie’s prompt fangirling as lovely and refreshing as she does Julie herself. When Julie asks her to be the group’s new assistant coach, Elle can’t assist however say sure.
How You Get the Girl is enjoyable, flirty and full of coronary heart, a narrative of two individuals falling for one another regardless of the chaos round them. Julie wrestles with defining her love for a lady, since she’s all the time thought of her sexuality label-less. Elle struggles with the overwhelming accountability of instantly changing into a guardian, to a teen no much less. While these challenges and extra have an effect on Julie and Elle’s burgeoning relationship, their bond motivates and unites them. Love is large and scary and thrilling, and Kelly proves that the greatest win is being courageous sufficient to open your coronary heart to a different particular person.
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