Fangirl
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Guide to YA Lit
Fangirl is a young adult novel by Rainbow Rowell, published in 2013. Fangirl is Rowell's second published book, following Eleanor & Park.
The book presents Cath as a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, along with her more outgoing identical twin sister, Wren. While Wren is making new friends and partying, Cath struggles to adjust due to her social anxiety. Most of Cath's free time is spent writing fanfiction. The fanfiction follows the fictional Simon Snow series.
Wren distances herself from Cath and professes to have outgrown fanfiction, whereas Cath becomes more interested in her writing classes. She becomes friends with her classmate Nick, meeting him for writing sessions.
Despite this, Cath is miserable. Her roommate Reagan and Reagan's friend Levi decide to help. After Cath becomes closer to Levi, he reveals he is romantically interested in her. Just before finals, Cath's father has a bipolar episode, and is involuntarily committed in the hospital. Cath ditches her exams and her final paper to take care of her father.
Cath nearly gives up on her studies, on Wren, and her friends. However, she decides to continue, and learns to cope. Cath and her sister reunite in the hospital after Wren gets alcohol poisoning. Cath encounters her mother there, who had abandoned them years before. As the school year ends, Cath finishes her novel, and struggles to write an original short story for her class.
The book presents Cath as a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, along with her more outgoing identical twin sister, Wren. While Wren is making new friends and partying, Cath struggles to adjust due to her social anxiety. Most of Cath's free time is spent writing fanfiction. The fanfiction follows the fictional Simon Snow series.
Wren distances herself from Cath and professes to have outgrown fanfiction, whereas Cath becomes more interested in her writing classes. She becomes friends with her classmate Nick, meeting him for writing sessions.
Despite this, Cath is miserable. Her roommate Reagan and Reagan's friend Levi decide to help. After Cath becomes closer to Levi, he reveals he is romantically interested in her. Just before finals, Cath's father has a bipolar episode, and is involuntarily committed in the hospital. Cath ditches her exams and her final paper to take care of her father.
Cath nearly gives up on her studies, on Wren, and her friends. However, she decides to continue, and learns to cope. Cath and her sister reunite in the hospital after Wren gets alcohol poisoning. Cath encounters her mother there, who had abandoned them years before. As the school year ends, Cath finishes her novel, and struggles to write an original short story for her class.