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Author Rubin, Lance, 1981- author.

Title Crying Laughing / Lance Rubin.

Publication Info. [South Bend, IN] : Ember, 2021.
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 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Teen  YA RUBIN LANCE    Check Shelf
Description 323 pages ; 21 cm
Summary The author of Denton Little's Deathdate gives us a tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even ... flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is ... not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through.
Subject Laughter -- Fiction.
Improvisation (Acting) -- Fiction.
Comedy sketches -- Fiction.
Terminally ill parents -- Fiction.
High school students -- Fiction.
Comedians -- Fiction.
Plays -- Improvisation -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Terminally ill parents. (OCoLC)fst01147902
Laughter. (OCoLC)fst00993552
Improvisation (Acting) (OCoLC)fst00968302
High school students. (OCoLC)fst00956174
Comedy sketches. (OCoLC)fst00869104
Genre/Form Young adult fiction.
Fictional Work. (DNLM)D022922
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Young adult works. (OCoLC)fst01726790
Novels.
ISBN 9780525644705 (paperback)
0525644709 (paperback)
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