How We’d Look on Film
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Now all that’s left is the memory, and that once-happy image of her next to me in the school hallways will always resonate inside me. Two years later, I’m seventeen in a world that no longer resembles the one I used to know. Somewhere down the line things have gone wrong. All I see is her. Even though she’s gone, she’s all that’s left of my former self—the one that saw life as something beautiful. My life is now a train-wreck, a disaster, and I’m doing all I can to pick myself back up again.
I was starting fresh.
Today was the day my mom was coming to take me to my new home, to my very own apartment. At any moment now her vehicle would come tumbling up the driveway of the house I’d been staying in. My mom had a big, expensive SUV, and when she came to pick me up it would be full of all the things I’d left behind when I moved out two weeks ago.
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About the Book
For Dray Emerald, it all started back in Grade 11 when he was sixteen years old, when life was simple and he know who he was and how to be happy. That’s when he had a crush on the perfect girl, Anna Markus. But when she moved away from their hometown of Smithers, British Columbia, everything began to change.
Dray, a once-perfect Mormon boy—turns his back on his faith and family and gets caught up in a world of drugs and alcohol. He gets kicked out of the rich and privileged life his parents have handed him. Planning on hitting the road without ever looking back, fate keeps him in town for one last summer. At the age of seventeen, he finds himself living in his own apartment. For the first time in his life, the possibilities are endless.
He has the chance to win over Anna, who’s back in town for summer break, but he’s torn between her and the lovely Rose Miller, his hometown sweetheart and longtime friend. Things slowly tilt into place as the seasons change. By coming to terms with the world around him—his friends, family, and his hometown of Smithers—he nears closer to solving the mystery in his heart.
About the Author
Kai Gorbahn is a writer of poetry and fiction. His first novel, How We’d Look on Film, is based on his firsthand experiences of growing up in Smithers, British Columbia. He now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.