Finding Mr. Brightside, Clark Jay

She didnt expect her silver lining to be wearing gray sweatpants.

Abram and Juliette know each other. Theyve lived down the street from each other their whole lives. But they dont really know each other--at least, not until Juliettes mom and Abrams dad have a torrid affair that culminates in a deadly car crash. Sharing the same subdivision is uncomfortable, to say the least. They dont speak.

Fast-forward to the neighborhood pharmacy, a year later. Abram decides to say hello. Then he decides to invite Juliette to Taco Bell.

To her surprise as well as his, she agrees. And the real love story begins.

Finding Mr. Brightside is a contemporary young adult novel by Jay Clark.

Jay Clark, you just wrote one of my favorite YA books ever. Thank you! --Jerry Spinelli, author of Stargirl

Clarks characters are realistic and sympathetic. Readers will root for both of them to overcome their trauma and accept a future of happiness. --VOYA

Clark (The Edumacation of Jay Baker) crafts a believably tentative relationship between these two damaged teens, their sharp-edged humor masking the pain that they cant quite shake. --Publishers Weekly

Though the problems the teens face are myriad, the story never bogs down. --Booklist