Fic­tion

Going Bicoastal

  • From the Publisher
June 12, 2021

A queer Slid­ing Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between sum­mer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she’s always want­ed) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she nev­er saw coming).

In Dahlia Adler’s Going Bicoastal, there’s more than one path to hap­pi­ly ever after.

Natalya Fox has twen­ty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the sum­mer with her dad (and final­ly screw up the courage to talk to the girl she’s been crush­ing on), or spend it with her basi­cal­ly estranged mom in LA (know­ing this is the best chance she has to fix their rela­tion­ship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?)

How’s a girl sup­posed to choose?

She can’t, and so both sum­mers play out in alter­nat­ing time­lines — one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on fig­ur­ing out her future, and goes for the girl she’s always want­ed. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on fig­ur­ing out her future, and goes for the guy she nev­er saw coming.

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