We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story
Author: Josh Sundquist
A bright, poignant, and deeply funny autobiographical account of coming of age as an amputee cancer survivor, from Josh Sundquist: Paralympic ski racer, YouTube star, and motivational speaker.Josh Sundquist only ever had one girlfriend.For twenty-three hours.In eighth grade.Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked the….Read More
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