To All the Boys meets The
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (with a dash of Dumplin') in this
funny, romantic, and heartfelt coming of age story about a teen stand-up comic
learning how to be her truest self, from the author of If You're Out
There.
Gretchen has always
been more of a "least likely" than a "most likely" kind of girl. So how does
she somehow find herself living out every trope from her favorite rom-coms . .
. ?
The Best Friend Crush: Why is it suddenly so hard to act
normal around her childhood BFF, Samuel? Must
be time for a--
Makeover(!): Black leather pants and some red lipstick are apparently enough to lend
Gretchen the bravado to do an impromptu set at a comedy club and catch the eye
of --
The Roguish
Bad Boy: Jeremy, the
alluring young comic who thinks her name is Sabrina. It might just be--
The Perfect Cover: A way for Gretchen to escape into her new funny-girl alter ego and figure out who she really is--and
what she really wants. But as rom-coms have taught her, leading a double life can
only last so long. . . .
"A rom-com
with six extra helpings of riotous comedy, The Girl Least Likely has so
many laughs your actual day will be brighter for reading it." --E. Lockhart,
author of We Were Liars