Hearts Together is a modern coming-of-age novel by the award-winning author of The Dad Who Stayed and Other Stories and Poor As I Am and Other Stories at Christmas. It’s a long novel for readers who love long novels, an exploration of love, friendship, family, and the challenges of living a life of faith in a religious community with conflicting senses of what that life should be.
High school sophomore Jenny Miller goes to dances but doesn’t dance. Sitting is safer, in case she has a seizure. When she meets a boy who likes to sit and talk with her, an unexpected but welcome adventure begins. He even persuades her to dance with him.
It’s not quite the blissful romance of her dreams. He’s an athlete, and he’s too popular to be interested in a girl like her—according to other girls, and she fears it might be true. Then jealousy turns to bullying.
Meanwhile, these two believing Latter-day Saints are breaking a few of the many dating rules they learned at church, where some are eager to judge and to assume the worst.
Amid rumors, judgments, and bullying that turns breathtakingly cruel, can they face another day? Is fitting in at school or church worth the price? Is love? And which of the many things they hear at church does God actually expect them to obey?
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