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Square Fish I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom
Square Fish I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

By Shannon C. F. Rogers

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Publication Date: April 15, 2025

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Ages 15 to 18

Packed with voice, this is a powerful coming-of-age YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's death.

Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end.

But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn’t say. And when Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend—and then punches said best friend in the face—she's left alone, with nothing but a burning anger.

And Marisol is determined to stay angry. After all, there’s a lot to be angry about. But as a new friendship begins to develop, Marisol reluctantly starts to open up to her, and to the possibility there’s something else on the other side of that anger—something more to who she is, and who she could be.

About the Author

??Shannon C.F. Rogers is a multiracial American writer of Filipinx and European descent. She studied writing at the University of New Mexico and Antioch University Los Angeles while serving as an educator, after-school program director, and lost mitten finder at schools in Albuquerque, Chicago, and NYC. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is also the author of I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom.

Format: Trade Paperback

Length: 336 pages

Publisher: Square Fish

Publication Date: April 15, 2025

ISBN: 9781250845658

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