Sykosa
By Justin
Ordoñez
BLURB:
Sykosa (that's "sy"-as-in-"my"
ko-sa) is a sixteen-year-old girl trying to reclaim her identity
after an act of violence shatters her life and the life of her
friends. This process is complicated by her best friend, Niko, a
hyper-ambitious, type-A personality who has started to war with other
girls for social supremacy of their school, a prestigious preparatory
academy in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. To compensate,
Sykosa has decided to fall in love with her new boyfriend, Tom, who
was involved in the act of violence. Propelled by survivor guilt, an
anxiety disorder, and her hunger for Tom and his charms, Sykosa
attends a weekend-long, unchaperoned party at Niko's posh vacation
cottage, where she will finally confront Niko on their friendship,
her indecision about her friends and their involvement in the act of
violence, and she will make the biggest decision of her life—whether
or not she wants to lose her virginity to Tom. YA fiction for the 18+
crowd.
Everything is too complicated. It should not have to be. She goes behind the chapel. He goes behind the chapel. They make out. Simple, right? It’s not. Regardless, if even that must be complicated, then certainly the concept that she wants to go to Prom, thus he should ask her to Prom and then they should go to Prom is simple, right? It’s not. You see, he has this best friend, this confidante, this main focus, this everything—and her name is not Sykosa, but Mackenzie.Or as you will soon find out: “M.” That’s what he calls her.So, every day, she faces the fact that they are merely acquaintances. Two pigeons in a flock of nine hundred who dress the same, talk the same, and act the same. That’s okay. Pigeons are only pigeons because conformity is only conformity. It’s okay to be like everyone else so long as she is always herself. And that is the reason, because there is no other reason, why she makes out with this boy. Other than she likes it. Kissing is fun. She’s lying. There is another reason. Another trivial teenage doodad—when she talks to him, lame as it sounds, she feels like she is being herself.Tom’s never understood this. He sees no issue in how she feels like a phoenix, but is only regarded as a pigeon—and not only a pigeon, but one pigeon in a flock of… Never mind, conformity sucks!
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AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
Justin Ordoñez was born in Spain,
raised in the mid-west, and currently lives in Seattle. He's nearly
thirty years old, almost graduated from the University of Washington,
and prefers to wait until TV shows come out on DVD so he can watch
them in one-shot while playing iPad games. For fifteen years, he has
written as a freelance writer, occasionally doing pieces as
interesting as an editorial, but frequently helping to craft
professional documents or assisting in the writing of recommendation
letters for people who have great praise for friends or colleagues
and struggle to phrase it. Sykosa is his debut novel.
LINKS:
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www.goodreads.com/sykosa
http://sykosa.wordpress.com
www.twitter.com/sykosanovel
www.goodreads.com/sykosa
http://sykosa.wordpress.com
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