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The Simple Complexities of Inauthentic Authenticity
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For two years, Helena Galuska has told herself she's over Zack Garcia. Everyone knows him as the guy who runs the school, but does anyone really know him? One late night changes everything, and suddenly Helena is exactly where she swore she'd never let herself be: falling for the boy the whole school has warned her about.
As Helena and Zack get closer, their tight-knit friend group starts fracturing under the weight of their secrets-a hidden relationship one of them isn't ready to admit to, a betrayal that ends with someone in the hospital, and a night of violence that changes the entire group forever. Every character in this book is hiding something, and by the final act, it all unravels at once.
Told with unflinching emotional honesty, this debut novel doesn't shy away from the hard stuff: addictions, mental illness, grief. The Simple Complexities of Inauthentic Authenticity is a raw, unflinching coming-of-age story about what happens when the mask finally comes off. If you want a book with messy, morally complicated characters, real consequences, and a slow-motion emotional wreck you can't look away from, this is a book you won't be able to put down before you know how it ends.
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