We Contain Multitudes Paperback by Sarah Henstra

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada (2020-05-12)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780735264236
• Item Weight: 340.2 grams
• Dimensions: 8.31 x 5.56 x 0.97 cm

An exhilarating and emotional LGBTQ story about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters written to one another. For fans of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and I’ll Give You the Sun.

Thrown together by a zealous English teacher's classroom-mailbox assignment, notorious scrapper, Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky, and Jonathan Hopkirk, a flamboyant Walt Whitman wannabe, have to write an old-fashioned letter to each other every week.
     Kurl is a senior, an ex high school football player, held back a year, while Jo is a nerdy, out tenth grader with a penchant for vintage clothes and a deep love for poetry. They are an unlikely pair, but with each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that grows into love. But with homophobia, bullying and familial abuse, Jonathan and Kurl must struggle to overcome their conflicts and hold onto their relationship, and each other.

About the Author

SARAH HENSTRA won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for her novel The Red Word (ECW/Grove). She is also author of the YA novels Mad Miss Mimic (Penguin Random House Canada, 2015), which was named a CLA Best Book for Teens and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and We Contain Multitudes (Penguin Teen/Little, Brown, 2019). Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University in Toronto.