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This is a story about . . .
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The Playlist
Gina Vergotti, a new teacher with an old soul, is reeling after the suicide of Lily, a friend and mentor… who was also her gay awakening.
Charismatic, young-at-heart rock musician, Cori Ryder, is also floundering after Lily’s death, since she was her roommate and needs to find a new place to crash stat.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Gina and Cori move in together. Soon after, they embark on a road trip from New York to Nevada to return Lily’s belongings to her family… and to gain some insight into the mysterious playlist that Lily made for Gina before she died. Though their new connection deepens, it’s obvious that both of them have a lot of growing up to do. The trip leaves them forever changed, but do their respective “forevers” include each other?
This story of loss, love, music, maturation, romance, and redemption unfolds over a span of more than four years, in settings as diverse as New York City, Nevada, Washington State, and places in between. Join the journey of Gina and Cori as they find themselves and each other across time and spaces. And yes, The Playlist includes the actual playlist, the song titles listed as the names of the chapters.
Spoiler-free content warnings:
❉ Mental health/suicide
❉ Marijuana use
❉ Alcohol use
❉ Swearing
❉ Religion
❉ History of emotional abuse
❉ Adoption
❉ Cancer
❉ Death
❉ Sex
❉ Mental health (An important character, who we only encounter through flashbacks, commits suicide and is discussed recurringly throughout the story; we know this from the first chapter. The other characters spend time coming to terms with the scope of her mental illness and their guilt.)
❉ Drug use (only once; the MCs smoke marijuana)
❉ Alcohol use and disordered drinking (frequent social drinking and some references to being hungover; one drunken scene)
❉ Swearing (there are F bombs)
❉ Religion (there is a scene where some characters mock religion; another where some characters pray)
❉ Abuse (one character discloses the details of a past relationship that was emotionally abusive and sexually manipulative. No rape.)
❉ Adoption (a secondary character gets adopted)
❉ Cancer (a secondary character has cancer)
❉ Death of a parent (one of the secondary characters is a parent of a young child and dies)
❉ Sex (this is a lebsian romance novel; there are make-out scenes between the two MCs, and a few scenes where their sex is desrcibed in extended, graphic terms.)
