About This Is My Brain In Love
It’s the summer before junior year of high school, and Jocelyn and Will both feel stuck: Jocelyn in her family’s restaurant that might go under, forcing her to move back to the city and away from her best friend, and Will without a job or the school paper position he really wanted. When Will responds to a “help wanted” ad for Jocelyn’s family’s restaurant, the two launch into action trying to save the restaurant and also falling in love. Told from alternating perspectives, the book shows readers the insides of both characters brains as they navigate understanding their relationships, their families, and their own selves.
This Is My Brain In Love looks into the kaleidoscope that is mental health. It explores how family, ethnicity, class, gender, and love all interact and color the way our brains work, and it provides language to understand when our brains are working against our own best interest. Above all, the novel gives readers permission to not always be okay, and to know that they are never alone in that feeling.
It’s the summer before junior year of high school, and Jocelyn and Will both feel stuck: Jocelyn in her family’s restaurant that might go under, forcing her to move back to the city and away from her best friend, and Will without a job or the school paper position he really wanted. When Will responds to a “help wanted” ad for Jocelyn’s family’s restaurant, the two launch into action trying to save the restaurant and also falling in love. Told from alternating perspectives, the book shows readers the insides of both characters brains as they navigate understanding their relationships, their families, and their own selves.
This Is My Brain In Love looks into the kaleidoscope that is mental health. It explores how family, ethnicity, class, gender, and love all interact and color the way our brains work, and it provides language to understand when our brains are working against our own best interest. Above all, the novel gives readers permission to not always be okay, and to know that they are never alone in that feeling.
About the Author
I. W. Gregorio is a practicing surgeon and young adult novelist. Her first novel, None of the Above, was a Lambda Literary Finalist, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, and named to the ALA Rainbow List. This Is My Brain In Love is her second YA novel. Gregorio’s work offers on-ramps for understanding as well as mirrors for readers to see their own struggles with topics such as intersex identity and mental health. She serves as a board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, and she is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books and its former VP of Development. Gregorio grew up in Utica, NY and currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.
Common Read Committee
- Mr. Caldwell (English)
- Dean Camilus (OMA)
- Ms. Hurley (Health)
- Ms. Langevin (Health)
- Ms. Rohloff (Library)
- Ms. Soucy (Health)
- Ms. Waterman (Science)
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- Tyler Caldwell, 9th Grade Coordinator tcaldwell@exeter.edu
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