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All's Fair in Love and Buried Feelings: A Conversation with YA Author Kit Rosewater
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Featured Book

Buried Feelings
When a San Francisco treasure hunt ropes two ex-besties back together, they’ll end up digging into their own complicated, buried feelings in this queer YA rom com!
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
Come celebrate Pride with award-winning, bestselling authors Kit Rosewater and Ann Zhao as they discuss Kit’s recent and upcoming queer YA novels–All’s Fair in Love and Field Hockey and Buried Feelings–and their role in larger canon of queer YA literature.
Featured Author

Kit Rosewater
Kit Rosewater lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her partner and two small children. She is the award-winning author of the YA romances Buried Feelings and All's Fair in Love and Field Hockey, as well as the Derby Daredevils, an illustrated middle grade series. Kit has been a theater and English teacher, a bookseller, and a children's literature academic. She is the chairperson of the Freedom to Read New Mexico coalition, and advocates in schools and at the state legislature against book censorship.
In Conversation With

Ann Zhao
Ann Zhao is the Indie-bestselling author of Dear Wendy and a contributor to the anthology Being Aro. When she’s not writing, she works in youth and teen services at a public library, where she’s always finding excuses to put her friends’ books on display. Born and raised in Illinois, she lived briefly in Massachusetts for college but now resides back in the Chicagoland area.
About the Venue

Dandelion Bookshop
Dandelion Bookshop works to foster a vibrant literary community by providing a curated selection of books, inspiring events, and a welcoming atmosphere that nourishes the love of reading in Oak Park and beyond.
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