Sick Kids In Love by Hannah Moskowitz

Author:Hannah Moskowitz [Moskowitz, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Coming of Age Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance eBooks, Teen & Young Adult Dating & Sex Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Literary Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Emotions & Feelings Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Depression & Mental Illness Fiction, YA Romance, Sick Kids Romance, Entangled Teen, Hannah Moskowitz, Dark YA Romance, YA Sicklit, Jewish, Diverse YA Author, First Love, Holiday Romance, romantic comedy, boy next door, Hospital Romance, Overcoming Odds, friends to lovers, Sweet YA Romance, New York City
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

What was the best thing that happened this year?

I don’t know. It was kind of a downer year, but I got to watch my best friend be super, super happy, so that’s pretty great…and we still have Luna’s party to come. So the year is not over yet!

—Maura Cho, 16, optimist

The world didn’t end, which, considering the current state of, you know, everything, is enough for me to call it a win. Also I got into NYU, and my mom and my sister didn’t kill each other, so I’ll take it.

—Siobhan O’Brian, 17, mediator

The hospital’s doing better than it was this time last year, my baby girl is doing well, and…well, that’s enough, I think. I’m not sure I can think of any one best thing, but I think just getting through this year is going to be enough. Oh, a few weeks ago you got those great test results! Maybe that was the best thing.

—John Garfinkel, 49, Physician in Chief at Linefield and West Memorial Hospital

Hmmm, I don’t knooooooow…

—Claire Lennon, 16, dead

So Georgia—the country, not the state—has been participating in the Olympics since 1994. They’ve won a fair number of medals in the Summer Olympics, but nothing ever in the winter. It’s not really a Winter Olympics kind of country. So when Rusudani Mudziri was born in 1990 in Georgia, and she wanted to be an Olympic figure skater from just about the moment she could walk… I mean, first of all, they weren’t even an independent country then, let alone one in the Olympics. And on top of that, Rusudani has kind of the classic tragic backstory—raised in poverty, born to a teen mom, war-torn country. But she works her whole life, practicing constantly, training, all sorts of skating things I don’t know the ins and outs of. But tons of work. Her mom makes all her outfits because they don’t have the money to buy them; her whole family throws every kind of support behind her they can. And, all right, it’s Olympic qualifiers, and she wouldn’t be the first skater from Georgia to go to the Olympics, but she’d be, I believe, the seventh, so it’s a small number. And she gets hurt. Messes up her knee, and she thinks, you know, that’s it. All of this training, all of these people rooting for me, nothing. And on top of all that, she gets pregnant. So now she’s messed up her knee, she has a little baby, she’s getting old—in Olympic terms—everyone has counted her out. But she shows up, and she gets in. And this year, Rusudani Mudziri won the gold medal in figure skating at the Winter Olympics, and I feel like just in terms of…of small, sweet, lovely things, that might be the best thing that happened this year. Also I got a girlfriend.

—Sasha Sverdlov-Deckler, 16, boyfriend

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