From Broadway to your bookshelf
Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke with Susan Smelser from The Book Worm in Powder Springs, Ga."Dear Evan Hansen" is a smash Broadway musical — and now it's a novel, too.Bookseller Susan Smelser recommends the adaptation of "Dear Evan Hansen," which takes on the very difficult topic of teen suicide.Evan Hansen is a high schooler who feels totally alone and isolated. When another so-called "outcast" teen dies by suicide, Evan finds himself pretending to have been his best friend.One lie gives way to…
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