I'll Give You the Sun

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In this “bold, even breathtaking” (The New York Times Book Review) novel, fraternal twins find their way back to each other after years of misunderstandings and only having half the story.

“A blazing prismatic explosion of color.”—Entertainment Weekly

“An exquisite surrender to wonder and possibilities.”—The Boston Globe

“Powerful and well-crafted . . . Stunning.”—Time

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them.

But three years later, at sixteen, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life.

The early years are Noah’s story to tell. The later years are Jude’s. What the twins don’t realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to each other, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

MICHAEL L. PRINTZ AWARD WINNER • A STONEWALL HONOR BOOK • BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: KIRKUS REVIEWS, BOSTON GLOBE, BUSTLE, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, YALSA

Jandy Nelson, like her characters in I’ll Give You the Sun, comes from a superstitious lot. She was tutored from a young age in the art of the four-leaf clover hunt; she knocks wood, throws salt, and carries charms in her pockets. Her debut novel, The Sky Is Everywhere, was on multiple Best Books of the Year lists, was a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick, earned numerous starred reviews, has been translated widely, and continues to enjoy great international success. Jandy has a BA from Cornell, an MFA in poetry from Brown, and another MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently a full-time writer, Jandy lives and writes in San Francisco, California—not far from the settings of The Sky Is Everywhere and I’ll Give You the Sun.