DEAR WENDY HB ZHAO

Dear Wendy—a dual POV young adult debut from Ann Zhao—finds two aromantic and asexual college students in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in a platonic love story perfect for fans of Alice Osman's Loveless!

Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a “real” university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she’ll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she’s behind the incredibly popular “Dear Wendy” account.

When Joanna “Jo” Ephron (also a first-year aroace college student) created their “Sincerely Wanda” account, it wasn’t at all meant to take off or be taken seriously—not like Wendy’s. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Wendy’s account? Oops. As if Jo’s not busy enough having existential crises over gender identity, whether she’ll ever truly be loved, and the possibility of her few friends finding The One then forgetting her!

While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo grow closer in real life, especially once they realize their shared aroace identity. Will their friendship survive if they learn just who’s behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?

Author: Ann Zhao

Book Type: Young Adult, 368 pages

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Language: English

ISBN: 9781250885005

Dimensions: 9 X 6 X 1 inches