Val Emmich is a multifaceted artist, excelling as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. His literary work delves into the human psyche, exploring themes of relationships, loss, and the search for identity. Emmich's prose is fluid and evocative, masterfully capturing emotional nuances and the complexities of human experience. His writing resonates with readers through its authenticity and emotional depth.
Endearing and wise . . . I adored the unlikely friendship between a gifted child who remembers everything and a grieving man who is trying to forget. Emmich brings a compassionate, often comical, and always true eye to his storytelling. Ten-year-old Joan says a good song should either make you want to dance or cry, and The Reminders does both' Eowyn Ivey, bestselling author of The Snow Child
When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.
High school senior Evan Hansen has been given the chance of a lifetime- to belong. When the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy took his own life, he did so in possession of a letter Evan had written to himself. Now everyone thinks they were best friends. As he helps Connor's family deal with their grief, it's clear that Evan isn't invisible anymore - even to the girl of his dreams. Every day is suddenly amazing. But Evan is soon pulled deeper into Connor's family's swirl of anger, regret, and confusion. And then everything starts to go wrong . . .
Now in Paperback: Nina LaCour's We Are Okay meets The Breakfast Club in this moving story of an unexpected relationship between two teens at odds with their friends and family and thrown together overnight during a snowstorm, by the bestselling author of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel Val Emmich.