Natalya is scared of change, but she knows she should fix things with her mom. Natalya Fox has a big choice to make: stay home in New York City for the summer, with her mathematician professor dad and familiar group of friends, or go to LA to stay with her pretty much estranged mom and intern at her mom's company. It's not graphic or detailed, but do proceed with caution if this is a trigger for you.įive fun things I shared about that book that I'll leave here:ġ) This is my first YA book where the MC is already out, and there is zero angst on that front for her or any of the other queer and/or trans characters.Ģ) Guess I wasn't done writing Shabbat dinner after Cool for the Summer, because they appear a lot in this book, in both timelines.ģ) The NYC chapters are very music-centric, while the LA chapters are very food-centric - when you meet Elly and Adam, you'll see why!Ĥ) There are some really good Poe puns in this book, if I may say so myself.ĥ) Yes, that's something of a nod to His Hideous Heart, and a few other books of mine are alluded to as well, but the most significant callback is to Cool for the Summer: Lara and especially Jasmine appear repeatedly (so if you're someone who's been asking for a sequel, this is the book you're looking for!) Now that Going Bicoastal is up on Edelweiss, I just wanted to mention that besides obviously being partly about divorce, there is a mention of past self-harm and scars in one scene.

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

Home field advantage by dahlia adler