My Week with Him
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""Acute portrait of agency, hope, and intergenerational trauma by Goffney."" βPublishers Weekly
""Add this title to collections where romance is in high demand."" βSchool Library Journal
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection pick!
From Joya Goffney ofΒ Excuse Me While I Ugly CryΒ comes a stirring YA coming-of-age, best-friends-to-lovers romance about a girl named Nikki who plans to run away from small-town Texas but ultimately finds that her oldest friend, Mal, just might be the one whoβs been there for her all along. Filled with heart and humor, this novel captures complex family drama, friendship, and love. For fans ofΒ I Wanna Be Where You AreΒ by Kristina Forest andΒ Counting Down with YouΒ by Tashie Bhuiyan.
Nikki canβt wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career . . . After a painful betrayalΒ by her sister and a heated argumentΒ with theirΒ mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He believes that over the course of a week, he can convince her to stay in Texas, or to at least graduate high school. But their plans are interrupted when Nikkiβs little sister, Vae, goes missing.
Nikki is forced to work alongside her difficult mother as they set off in search of Vae, with Malachaiβs support. Will Nikki find a reason to stay in Texas, or will this spring break be the last time she sees them? Through her emotional journey, Nikki ultimately finds the love sheβs always been missing and discovers the power of her own voice.
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Joya Goffney grew up in New Waverly, a small town in East Texas. In high school, she challenged herself with to-do lists full of risk-taking items, like βhug a random boyβ and βeat a cricket,β which inspired her debut novel, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, followed by her acclaimed second book, Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl, both of which received starred reviews and stellar buzz from BookRiot, PopSugar, Buzzfeed, and YALSA Best Fiction and Kirkus Best Book accolades. With a passion for Black social psychology, she moved out of the countryside to attend the University of Texas in Austin and has since settled in Houston. Visit her online at joyagoffney.com.
