Anatomy of a Boyfriend

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ANATOMY OF A BOYFRIEND is now available as a ..PAPERBACK...

Young adult novel ..Anatomy of a Boyfriend.. is about 17-year-old Dominique Baylor's first major relationship and all the highs and lows that come with the territory. (And yes, you get a lesson in male anatomy as well, which is why it's for ages 14 and up.)

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Selected as a New York Public Library "Book for the Teen Age 2008"

Selected by Target as a "Breakout Book"

.. BOOKLIST: Dominique, a high-school senior in Fort Myers, Florida, is an aspiring doctor whose favorite book is Grey’s Anatomy. Wes, a fellow senior, becomes her first boyfriend, and the two inexperienced teens explore first love, and sex, together. Written in Dom’s authentic voice, Snadowsky’s debut novel is an unusually honest portrayal of a teen girl’s sexual discovery . . . What feels so new here is the unsensationalized explicitness . . . Snadowsky realistically shows all the questions: Does sex mean love? What’s normal in a relationship? Like ..Forever.., this sensitive, candid debut is sure to find a wide audience among curious teens. --Gillian Engberg

KIRKUS: In her debut, Snadowsky describes the sex realistically, without embarrassment or prurience . . . Snadowsky's narrative easily holds the reader's interests with well-drawn, realistic characters, flowing prose, dialogue and emails . . . .

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: first-time novelist Snadowsky confidently marches where few YA writers have dared to tread . . . her witty, first-person narrative and humorous accounts of all-too-familiar situations come off as genuine . . . .

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: [An] honest look[] at how to navigate complicated and confusing times . . . First-time author Snadowsky does a good job of rendering all these emotions while keeping the plot chugging along . . . it's a promising debut . . . it posits thoughtful questions about what happens after you've achieved that teenage dream, the acquisition of a boyfriend, and the dream loses its luster. --Reyhan Harmanci

KLIATT: Appropriately, this book is dedicated to Judy Blume, and it may be the kind of groundbreaking novel that ..Forever.. was when first published a generation ago. It tells of first love . . . Just like in Judy Blume's ..Forever.., the emotional experiences of first love are described as poignantly and as graphically as are the physical experiences, which makes this a novel and not a sex manual . . . Snadowsky writes with real compassion for her teenage characters, and this means she cares about her readers. She wants to convey useful information as much as she wants to entertain with a moving story of romance—clearly this is not a story meant to titillate or shock, even though it might have that effect on some readers. --Claire Rosser

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