The Anatomical Shape of a Heart - Hardcover

Bennett, Jenn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 125006645X ISBN 13: 9781250066459

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends, 2015

Synopsis

Artist Beatrix Adams knows exactly how she's spending the summer before her senior year. Determined to follow in Da Vinci's footsteps, she's ready to tackle the one thing that will give her an advantage in a museum-sponsored scholarship contest: drawing actual cadavers. But when she tries to sneak her way into the hospital's Willed Body program and misses the last metro train home, she meets a boy who turns her summer plans upside down.

Jack is charming, wildly attractive . . . and possibly one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists. On midnight buses and city rooftops, Beatrix begins to see who Jack really is-and tries to uncover what he's hiding that leaves him so wounded. But will these secrets come back to haunt him? Or will the skeletons in Beatrix's own family's closet tear them apart?

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About the Author

Jenn Bennett is an award-winning author of the Arcadia Bell urban fantasy series (Kindling the Moon), the Roaring Twenties romance series (Bitter Spirits), the young adult contemporary romances The Anatomical Shape of a Heart (aka Night Owls in the U.K.) and Alex, Approximately. Her books have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITAŽ Award,received two Reviewers' Choice awards and a Seal of Excellence from RT Book Reviews, and been included on Publishers Weekly Best Books annual list. She lives near Atlanta with one husband and two pugs.

From School Library Journal

Gr 9 Up—Beatrix is not a typical teen artist. Her specialty is anatomical drawing. She wants nothing more than the chance to get into the Willed Body facility at a San Francisco medical school to draw the cadavers, sure that her precise work will win her a scholarship in a museum-sponsored drawing competition. Being a medical illustrator is an ambition she works toward by clerking in a local organic market to save for college and help her divorced RN mom keep their household afloat. Stuck waiting for the late bus one day, Beatrix meets a mysterious and gorgeous boy. They connect at once, staring into each other's eyes while flirting on the bus, but when a can of gold spray paint rolls out of Jack's bag, she knows why he's nervous and who he is: a notorious street artist who leaves single words of graffiti around the city. It should turn her off that he appears to be trouble, but Jack turns all of Bex's buttons to ON, and he is just as smitten, tracking her down and wooing her, even as she comes to understand that the words he's painting have as much to do with family and secrets as they do with art. Characters are well wrought, and dialogue feels realistic as the two navigate their lives and a fledgling relationship with humor and frank talk about sex, parents, and art. VERDICT An appealingly realistic romance that will curl toes and inspire sighs.—Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Sugar Hill, GA

About this edition

• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 125006645X
• ISBN 13: 9781250066459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304