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      HIGH PRAISE FOR

      everything grows

      BY AIMEE HERMAN

      A SWEET AND moving read about a young person growing up, coming out, and trying to find the right words to speak their truth. The awesome soundtrack is a bonus.

      EASY VEGAN

      EVERYTHING GROWS WILL grow inside you like a revelation, slowly unfolding to a shape that is vulnerable, raw and beautifully alive. . . . There’s tender wisdom and a wonderfully rendered young voice that anyone can recognize as human and real—all against a backdrop of riot grrrl rebellion. Herman writes a real story, teaching everyone a little about life as lived—genuinely and in discovery.

      MAX WOLF VALERIO, author, The Testosterone Files; The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces

      EVERYTHING GROWS IS haunting. It touches the darkness of bullying and suicide, yet brims with hope. Aimee Herman’s tender debut novel is an achingly real exploration of grief, self-discovery, forgiveness, and love.

      MEAGAN BROTHERS, author, Weird Girl and What’s His Name

      SET IN THE decade of grunge rock and ill-advised do-it-yourself body piercings, Aimee Herman’s Everything Grows chronicles a sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes funny journey to acceptance, both of self and others. Eleanor Fromme is a witty, kind, and conflicted narrator who could teach many people in our nation a lot about empathy.

      JULIA WATTS, author, Quiver

      EVERYTHING GROWS IS a work of healing. It describes coming out as a lifelong process of discovery. Friendship, disfunction, parenting good and bad, and learning to love are unspooled here against a background of exquisite caring. It is the rare read that leaves one a wiser person.

      STEVEN TAYLOR, author, False Prophet: Fieldnotes from the Punk Underground; editor, Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg

       everything grows

       a novel

      Aimee Herman

      THREE ROOMS PRESS

      New York, NY

       Everything Grows

      BY Aimee Herman

      © 2019 by Aimee Herman

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. For permissions, please write to address below or email [email protected]. Any members of education institutions wishing to photocopy or electronically reproduce part or all of the work for classroom use, or publishers who would like to obtain permission to include the work in an anthology, should send their inquiries to Three Rooms Press, 561 Hudson Street, #33, New York, NY 10014.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imaginations or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      ISBN 978-1-941110-68-3 (trade paperback original)

      ISBN 978-1-941110-69-0 (Epub)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018962451

      TRP-072

      Publication Date: May 7, 2019

      BISAC category code

      YAF031000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBT

      YAF037000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Loners & Outcasts

      YAF058020 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Bullying

      YAF016000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Epistolary (Letters & Diaries)

      First edition

      COVER DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION:

      Victoria Black: www.thevictoriablack.com

      BOOK DESIGN:

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      Three Rooms Press

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      “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

       —Zora Neale Hurston

       For Romy

       And for Andrew

      Contents

       Before

       1993

       1994

       Acknowledgements

       About the author

      before

      DEAR ELINORE,

      MY MOM USED TO READ TO ME WHEN I COULDN’T FALL ASLEEP. IT WAS ALWAYS THE GIVING TREE, I INSISTED. THE PICTURES WEREN’T ANYTHING SPECIAL. I LIKED HOW SAD THEY WERE. KID BOOKS ARE ALWAYS SO HAPPILY EVER AFTER, YOU KNOW? AND LIFE IS JUST NOT LIKE THAT. THAT BOY JUST KEEPS TAKING AND TAKING FROM THE TREE UNTIL THERE IS NOTHING ELSE. HE CARVES INTO IT, TAKES ITS BRANCHES, ITS APPLES, LEAVING JUST A STUMP. WHEN I WAS A KID, I THOUGHT ABOUT HOW LUCKY THIS BOY WAS TO HAVE A TREE AS HIS BEST FRIEND, BUT WHAT A MORON I WAS TO THINK THAT. THE BOY NEVER GAVE ANYTHING TO THIS TREE. THE BOY NEVER ASKED IT WHAT IT WANTED. NOW I HATE THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT REMINDS ME OF HOW BLIND WE ARE. EVERYONE JUST TAKES. NO ONE REALLY KNOWS ME AND NO ONE CARES TO. MY PARENTS THEY HAVE NO IDEA.

      YOU PROBABLY READ THIS BOOK A MILLION TIMES, OR AT LEAST KNOW IT. I’VE SEEN YOU IN THE HALLWAYS WITH YOUR NOSE IN SOME BOOK—PROBABLY FOR PLEASURE

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