Debut YA Novelist Combines Drug Addiction, Adolescence, and a Dash of Dark Magic in Tripping Back Blue

MINNEAPOLIS--()--Debut author Kara Storti’s Tripping Back Blue, a gripping new young adult title from Carolrhoda Lab™, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, is sure to catch the eye of teens interested in fast-paced, gritty contemporary stories.

Finn is a 17-year-old full of paradoxes. He's a drug dealer, but he's scoring money to send his twin sister to Harvard. He's desperate to shoot up even though he's the most popular kid in Dammertown. He's a philosopher and orator who's failing all his classes. The only time he finds peace is when he's bird-watching. Finn's life begins to spiral out of control, until he discovers a miracle drug called indigo. Finn is convinced that the drug is the way out of everything broken in his life. But is it really as magical as it seems?

A powerful debut novel with a heartbreaking narrator and a riveting plot about drug addiction, Tripping Back Blue is a blend of Breaking Bad and Catcher in the Rye, with a twist of magical realism thrown in.

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About the Author
Kara Storti graduated from the University of Southern Maine with an MFA in Creative Writing, where she fell in love with writing novels for young adults. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tripping Back Blue is her first book.

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Carolrhoda Lab™ is dedicated to distinctive, provocative, boundary-pushing fiction for teens. Carolrhoda Lab probes and examines the young-adult condition one novel at a time, affording YA authors and readers an opportunity to explore and experiment with thoughts, ideas, and paradigms in the human condition.

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PUBLICATION DATE:
April 2016

$17.99 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook Also Available
Ages 14–18
HC: 978-1-5124-0308-4
368 Pages ● 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

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Debut YA Novelist Combines Drug Addiction, Adolescence, and a Dash of Dark Magic in Tripping Back Blue

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Contacts

Lerner Publishing Group
Lindsay Matvick, 800-328-4929, x385
Publicity Manager
lmatvick@lernerbooks.com
or
Libby Stille, 800-328-4929, x347
Marketing and Publicity Assistant
lstille@lernerbooks.com