The Breakup Lists

Love is more complicated than "boy meets boy" in bestselling author Adib Khorram's sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theater

Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things--a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker--but one thing he's not is a romantic. And why would he be? He's already had a front row seat to his parents' divorce and picked up the pieces of his sister Jasmine's broken heart one too many times.

No, Jackson is perfectly happy living life behind the scenes--he is a stage manager, after all--and keeping his romantic exploits limited to the breakup lists he makes for Jasmine, which chronicle every flaw (real or imagined) of her various and sundry exes.

Enter Liam: the senior swim captain turned leading man that neither of the Ghasnavi siblings stop thinking about. Not that Jackson has a crush, of course. Jasmine is already setting her sights on him and he's probably--no, definitely--straight anyway.

So why does the idea of eventually writing a breakup list for him feel so impossible?

Author: Adib Khorram
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.50w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780593616390
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/15/2024
Booklist 01/01/2024 pg. 59
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2024

About the Author
Adib Khorram lives in Kansas City, Missouri. When he isn't writing, you can probably find him trying to get his hundred-yard freestyle under a minute, learning to do a Lutz jump, or steeping a cup of oolong. His debut novel, Darius the Great Is Not Okay, earned several awards, including the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. He is also the author of Darius the Great Deserves Better, Kiss and Tell, and the picture book Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story.