{"id":12670,"date":"2021-06-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T19:55:37","slug":"blog-tour-a-night-twice-as-long-by-andrew-simonet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/blog-tour-a-night-twice-as-long-by-andrew-simonet\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: A Night Twice As Long by Andrew Simonet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Night Twice As Long by Andrew Simonet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Title: A Night Twice As Long
Author: Andrew Simonet
Genre: Contemporary Young Adult
Release Date:<\/strong> 01 June 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you call the difference between what you should feel and what you do feel? Life?
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The blackout has been going on for three weeks. But Alex feels like she\u2019s been living in the dark for a year, ever since her brother, who has autism, was removed from the house, something Alex blames herself for. So when her best friend, Anthony, asks her to trek to another town to figure out the truth about the blackout, Alex says yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a journey that ultimately takes all day and night, Alex\u2019s relationships with Anthony, her brother, and herself will transform in ways that change them all forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this honest and gripping young adult novel, Andrew Simonet spins a propulsive tale about what it means to turn on the\u00a0lights and look at what\u2019s real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A Night Twice As Long Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one\u2019s ever gotten Georgie right except Anthony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were Sunday school exiles together at Saint Benedict\u2019s, a converted Grange hall with an unconvincing cross on top. Church was my mom\u2019s idea\u2014Dad went occasionally\u2014and, as it turned out, a real lifesaver. After my parents split when I was in eighth grade, people at Saint Benedict\u2019s hooked my mom up with food, rides, furniture, and a job. They were crazy generous. That came later. One hot Sunday in the summer before sixth grade, my job was taking squirmy Georgie to Sunday school. He never stayed, so, as usual, I hung with him in the parking lot, and in the play area with its patchy grass and broken swings. Georgie was nine and rambunctious. I was eleven, and so was Anthony, who sat on the curb behind a massive pickup in his ironed button-down shirt, clip-on bow tie, and creased black pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Sundays in a row, Anthony lingered in the parking <\/p>\n\n\n\n

lot, out of sight of the church, while Georgie and I roamed, finding twigs, struggling on the heavy seesaw, and singing non- sense songs. One time, Anthony had a book; another time he scratched curving lines into the gravel with his shiny loafers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the third Sunday, Georgie sat down near him, so I had to start a conversation. I asked what he was doing in the park- ing lot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a religious war,\u201d he said.
\u201cYou\u2019re fighting?\u201d
\u201cI\u2019m in the middle. My mom thinks church is superstition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandma says if I grow up without God, I\u2019ll end up on the wrong path.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat do you think?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter what I think. I let Gram bring me here when my mom\u2019s away. But I skip Sunday school.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCause why?\u201d
\u201cTo stand up for my mom.\u201d
Later, he told me about the disputes between his black mom <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and white grandma, how church was an easy symbol to fight over. Later still, when he trusted me, he mentioned the nasty Sunday school boys\u2014white boys, I assumed, cause it\u2019s a pretty white congregation\u2014who teased him about his clothes till he walked out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour mom\u2019s away a lot, huh?\u201d I said.
\u201cShe\u2019s in the navy. Duty calls.\u201d
And that\u2019s when he met my brother\u2014stood near my brother, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

really, cause you don\u2019t meet Georgie like you meet other people. And Anthony said: \u201cWow. I\u2019ve never seen a person like that.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgie pumped his elbows back and forth, wiggly air punches. \u201cRight?\u201d I said.
I didn\u2019t say: thank you. Thank you for not talking about how special he is. He\u2019s so sweet. <\/em>No, he isn\u2019t, not always. He\u2019s brilliant and hilarious, and he\u2019s like anybody: He has lovely sides and crappy sides. He broke a plate on a three-year-old girl\u2019s hand. He bent a windshield wiper back cause he didn\u2019t recognize the car my mom borrowed. I think that\u2019s why anyway. You don\u2019t always know. We comfort ourselves with explanations. Little kids make him anxious. <\/em>Or: Rooms without doors scare him. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGod, what\u2019s it like?\u201d Anthony said.
\u201cBeing his sister?\u201d
\u201cBeing him. Must be so different. Can you imagine?\u201d
Man, I try. Always. I put myself in Georgie\u2019s body, in his eyes <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and fingers and brain. I imagine being him so I can calm him, soothe him, and avoid the meltdowns, the fits and fists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But mostly: Wow, Anthony. <\/em>Nobody\u2019s ever real when they first encounter Georgie. Some people are repulsed. That\u2019s easy to handle. Screw them. Screw Normies thinking everybody\u2019s neu- rotypical. No one\u2019s neurotypical. I know a girl who counts stairs, needs them to end at eleven. She\u2019ll jump three steps at a time to make the math work. No special ed for her, though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pitiers are harder, frowning and nodding: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Must be so hard for your family.<\/em>
<\/em>Is there a cure?<\/em>
<\/em>Gosh, you\u2019re an angel to be such a loving sister.<\/em>
<\/em>No, I\u2019m not an angel. And I\u2019m not loving all the time.
But no one wants to know that. You can\u2019t be pissed at your <\/p>\n\n\n\n

disabled brother. You\u2019re not allowed to wish he was easier, not allowed to scream at him when he ruins family dinner for the fourth night in a row. He doesn\u2019t mean it. He has no idea. Every- one in the world does cruel things, mean things, but disabled kids are always doing their best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bull. If I\u2019m gonna treat him like a real person, I\u2019m gonna call out when he\u2019s an ass. That\u2019s what siblings do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Andrew Simonet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Simonet<\/strong>\u00a0is a choreographer and writer in Philadelphia. His first novel,\u00a0Wilder<\/em>, published in 2018. He co-directed\u00a0Headlong Dance Theater for twenty years and founded Artists U, an incubator for helping artists make sustainable lives. He\u00a0lives in West Philadelphia with his wife, Elizabeth, and their two sons, Jesse Tiger and Nico Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connect with Andrew Simonet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website<\/a> | Goodreads<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | BookBub<\/a> | Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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