Spoilers: The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle

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The Great American Whatever
by Tim Federle

“There’s maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.”
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Imagine your life is a movie. Not so hard, right? However, are you the protagonist or antagonist?
Quinn Roberts wanted nothing more than to be a screenwriter. After an older boy on the block, Ricky Devlin, showed him classic movies and taught him tips for screenwriting at age ten, little Quinny wrote movies and had his sister direct.

Small spoiler: Ricky Devlin sold a few movies in Hollywood.

Cut ahead six years. December 20th. A car speeds through a red light and crashes into a high school, killing the driver on impact. The driver was Annabeth Roberts.
Cut six months ahead. Quinn hadn’t written anything since the death of his sister.

Spoiler: she was killed from sending him a text.

After being holed up in his house with a broken AC in the middle of a Pittsburg summer, Quinn’s best friend, Geoff (with the annoying spelling) (sorry to anyone named Geoff) (but come on), decides he needs a night out. This “night out” started with them buying a new AC, but ended with a college party and a new AC.

Spoiler: the AC they bought never gets installed.
Another spoiler: Quinn does get an AC.

At this college party (hosted by Geoff’s sister, Carly), Quinn meets a boy named Amir. Amir is an aspiring Iranian-American author, who is also gay (yay diversity!), which is very fortunate for closeted Quinn.

Spoiler for Quinn: everyone knew he was gay since day dot.

Anyway, Quinn goes out with Carly, Geoff, and Amir to an amusement park, where they have a lot of fun. Amir also had no idea what happened to Annabeth (until Quinny gets drunk and tells him.)

Opinion time: this book was written in such a hilariously relatable way, I couldn’t help but smile. Quinn’s wording was perfect, a spectacular representation of a modern teen. I could also relate to how he scripted everything in his head, then got disappointed when things didn’t follow his script.
Now I want a story from the ACs perspective. Poor thing.

Rating: 90/100 (which is probably the temperature in this book. Seriously, have a cold drink handy.)

Signing off,

-Ashley Gishen



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