A 2020 National Book Award Long List SelectionA Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020A Reading Group Choices Best Book of 2020 A Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage.It’s the summer of ’83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father’s death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending Ziggy, an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug’s connection to the world grows stronger, her mother’s grows more distant ― even dangerous ― pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known.Trowbridge Road paints an unwavering
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