In John Green's stellar first novel for adults, flickers of his emotionally intelligent, nuanced young-adult character-building come through in Kai and Juniper, two fascinating, layered up-and-coming movie stars who struggle with their own demons as they try to live authentically amid the crush of Hollywood pressures. “I do not want to want to be loved by strangers, but I do not want to want most of what I want.” In John Green's first novel written for adults, he presents Kai

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