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Joined at the Joints
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Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: May 16 2025
Language: English
When baking-obsessed Ivy meets a boy who shares her rare diagnosis, sparks fly outside of the kitchen for the first time in her life!
Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed inside baking all summer--pies are better than people, and they don't trigger her social anxiety. So when her (also) chronically ill mom and sister cook up a plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group, Ivy doesn't expect to say more than a few words.
And she certainly doesn't expect Grant. Grant is CUTE: class-clown cute, perfectly-messy-hair cute, will-always-text-you-back cute. There's an instant connection between them. He has the same illness as her--juvenile rheumatoid arthritis--and he actually understands Ivy's world. But just because he understands her pain doesn't mean he can take it away, and she wishes he could ... because it's getting worse. Ivy has always tried her best to seem normal, but between symptom management, new treatment plans, and struggling with medical self-advocacy, being sick feels more and more difficult. With her energy plummeting, even her bestie starts drifting away! What if Grant does, too? Will Ivy's sugar-sweet romance pan out? Can she maintain her façade, for him and for the world ... or should she be brave and let it drop?
Marissa Eller serves up a sweet, satisfying romcom that tackles the realities of chronic illness--and coming-of-age milestones from friend breakups to first kisses--with wry humor, tons of heart, and a huge helping of honesty. Nuanced, funny, and deeply enjoyable, readers will fall for Eller's voice in this compelling debut that offers all the right ingredients.
A sweet and affirming story that embraces the unpredictability of chronic illness.--Anna Sortino, award-winning author of Give Me a Sign and On the Bright Side
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