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Despite being met with only limited success in the uk, it was a major hit elsewhere, even a top 20 hit in the united states and canada, reaching number 15 and 6 respectively. Her most recent book, goodbye stranger, was a boston globehorn book honor book for fiction and a new york times bestseller. This brilliant new book explores the boundaries of friendship. Goodbye stranger beautifully captures middle school and the mysterious changes that bodies, friendships, and people go through as they find out a little more about who they are really.
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