"Your shirt is yellow."
"Your eyes are blue."
"You have to stop running away from your problems."
"You're too skinny."
Fifteen-year-old Diana Keller accidentally begins teaching The Obvious Game
to new kid Jesse on his sixteenth birthday. As their relationship
deepens, Diana avoids Jesse's past with her own secrets -- which she'll
protect at any cost.
“Everyone
trusted me back then. Good old, dependable Diana. Which is why most
people didn’t notice at first.”
Praise for The
Obvious Game:
“I couldn’t put down
The Obvious Game. Arens perfectly captures the hunger, pain and
uncertainty of adolescence.” -- Ann
Napolitano, author of A GOOD HARD LOOK and WITHIN ARM'S REACH
"THE OBVIOUS GAME is
a fearless, honest, and intense look into the psychology of anorexia.
The characters—especially Diana--are so natural and emotionally
authentic that you’ll find yourself yelling at the page even as
you’re compelled to turn it." -- Coert
Voorhees, author of LUCKY FOOLS and THE BROTHERS TORRES
"Let’s be clear
about one thing: there’s nothing obvious about The Obvious Game.
Arens has written a moving, sometimes heart-breaking story about one
girl’s attempt to control the uncontrollable. You can’t help but
relate to Diana and her struggles as you delve into this gem of a
novel." -- Risa Green, author of THE
SECRET SOCIETY OF THE PINK CRYSTAL BALL
Book Information:
Publisher: Inkspell
Publishing
Release Date: Feb 7th,
2013
ISBN: 978-0-9856562-7-0
(ebook), 978-0-9856562-8-7 (Paperback)
Paperback Price: $13.99
Kindle: $4.99
To be available at all
major online outlets: Amazon, B&N, The Book Depository
Pre-order now at
Inkspell Publishing Website at a special
discount of 30% on both paperback and ebook!
About The Author:
Rita Arens is the
author of The Obvious Game
and the editor of the award-winning parenting anthology Sleep
Is for the Weak. She writes the popular blog
Surrender, Dorothy (www.surrenderdorothyblog.com)
and lives in Kansas City with her husband and daughter. The
Obvious Game is her first young adult novel.
She is at work on a second.
Rita has been a
featured speaker at BlogHer
2012, BEA Bloggers Conference
2012, BlogHer
Writers 2011, BlogHer
2011, Blissdom
2011, Alt
Summit 2010, BlogHer
2010, BlogHer 2008 and BlogHer
2009, the 2008
Kansas City Literary Festival and 2009
Chicks Who Click and appeared on the Walt
Bodine Show in 2008.
She’s been quoted by
Bloomberg Businessweek, The
Associated Press, Forbes
Woman, the Wall
Street Journal, Businessweek
and Businessweek
Online and featured in Breathe
magazine, Get
Your Biz Savvy, The
Kansas City Star (archived material
available on request), Today
Moms (Today Show blog) and Ink
KC.
Website/blog:
http://www.surrenderdorothyblog.com
or http://www.ritaarens.com
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ritaarens
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/rita.arens
Pinterest:
https://pinterest.com/ritajarens/
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