How to Lose a Best Friend

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This important and necessary book for our time (Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be) confronts the myth of the friend zone as a boy in love with his best friend feels hes owed a chance at romanceand shes the only one in their lives who disagrees.

For as long as anyone can remember, Zeke Ladoja and Imogen Parker have been best friends. Their classmates, their parents, and even the school custodian think that theyre meant to be together. And thats exactly what Zeke wants: for Gen to be his girlfriend. Now that shes about to be sixteen (and allowed to date), Zeke is finally going to tell her how he feelsin front of everyone at her birthday party.

Imogen loves Zeke with all her heart, but only as a friend. The pressure to be with Zeke has sometimes been overwhelming, but up to this point, shes been able to manage it. Then she falls for the new boy, Trevor Cook, and she knows the news will devastate Zeke. The last thing she wants to do is hurt her best friend, but she also resents the fact that no one seems to care about what she wants.

The night of Gens party, everything goes wrong. Theres backlash, most of it directed at Gen, and Zeke feels emboldened. He isnt about to give up on his feelings, and hell do whatever it takes to prove that she made the wrong choiceeven if it means destroying their friendship. But Gen isnt about to give up on fighting for herself and the freedom to love the boy she wants, not the boy shes expected to be with.

Author Bio

Jordan K. Casomar is a Black prose writer from West Des Moines, Iowa. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota. He was selected for a MacDowell Fellowship in fall 2021, was the runner-up for thePinchs Spring 2018 Literary Awards in creative nonfiction, received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant in 2017, and is an alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation workshop for BIPOC writers. He currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, their son, and their two cats. He works as a professional Dungeon Master and creative writing instructor for teens.How to Lose a Best Friendis his debut novel. Visit him at JordanKCasomar.com.