The Great American Whatever (26 page)

Also by Tim Federle

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Text copyright © 2016 by Tim Federle

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Federle, Tim.

The great American whatever / Tim Federle.

pages cm

Summary: “Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, copes with his sister's death while his best friend forces him back out into the world to face his reality”— Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-4814-0409-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4814-0411-2 (eBook)

[1. Screenwriters—Fiction. 2. Grief—Fiction. 3. Gays—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.F314Gr 2016

[Fic]—dc23

2015015712