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Dear Evan Hansen: You Will Be Found

Dear Evan Hansen

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Even in book form, Evan Hansen's story sings. Required reading, especially for anyone who's ever needed to be found

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel is a terrific reinvention of an already brilliant piece of art

Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper

Yep, the hit musical will make you cry just as much in book form

A must-read for teens and those who care about them

The writers of Dear Evan Hansen have given fans a rare gift

PRAISE FOR DEAR EVAN HANSEN: 
 
A gorgeous new musical for anyone with a beating heart

One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history

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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 . . .

*Read the book before you see the film, out September 2021!* 
 
 Dear Evan Hansen, 
 
 Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why... 
 
When a letter that was never meant to be seen draws high school senior Evan Hansen into the Murphy 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. 
 
Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore. And Connor's wealthy parents have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his 'closest friend'. 
 
As Evan gets pulled deeper into their family, he knows that what he's doing may not be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be? 
 
No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. 
 
He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. But when everything is in danger of unravelling, he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. 
 
A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation. 
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 Praise for Dear Evan Hansen: 
 
'Even in book form, Evan Hansen's story sings. Required reading, especially for anyone who's ever needed to be found' - Becky Albertalli, author of Love Simon 
 
'Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel is a terrific reinvention of an already brilliant piece of art.' -Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper 
 
'Today's going to be an amazing day, and here's why: because you're holding this book.' - David Arnold, author of Mosquitoland 
 
'The writers of Dear Evan Hansen have given fans a rare gift' - Teen Vogue 
 
'Yep, the hit musical will make you cry just as much in book form' - Entertainment Weekly

Val Emmich (Author) 
 Val Emmich is a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor whowas dubbed a 'Renaissance man' by the New York Post. He has hadrecurring roles on Vinyl and Ugly Betty as well as a memorableguest role as Liz Lemon's coffee-boy fling, Jamie, on 30 Rock. His debutnovel, The Reminders, received rave reviews, with Popsugar deeming it'beautiful and beguiling' and Huffington Post saying "Emmichperforms a bit of creative magic...in his warm and winning debut'. Emmich livesin Jersey City, New Jersey, with his wife and their two children. 
 
Justin Paul (Author) 
 Benj Pasek andJustin Paul are the Tony,Oscar®, and Golden Globe-winning songwriting team behind the Broadway musicals DearEvan Hansen (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Obie Award, Outer Critics CircleAward, Helen Hayes Award) and A Christmas Story: The Musical (Tony,Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, London Evening Standard award nominations), Jamesand the Giant Peach, and Edges. Film projects include La La Land(Lionsgate); and Trolls (DreamWorks Animation). Recent and upcoming filmprojects include The Greatest Showman (20thCentury Fox); Snow White (Walt Disney Pictures); Medusa (SonyPictures Animation); and Aladdin (Walt Disney Pictures). TV creditsinclude Smash, Sesame Street, The Flash, and Johnny and the Sprites,and FOX's A Christmas Story Live! musical. Additional honours: RichardRodgers Award (American Academy of Arts and Letters); ASCAP Foundation RichardRodgers New Horizons Award; Jonathan Larson Award. Both are graduates of theUniversity of Michigan Musical Theatre program and members of the DramatistsGuild of America, Inc. 
 
Steven Levenson (Author) 
 Steven Levenson is the Tony Award-winning book writer of DearEvan Hansen. His plays include If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearnceof Tom Durnin, Core Values, The Language of Trees, and Seven Minutes inHeaven. Honors include the Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, OuterCritics John Gassner Playwriting Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desknomination, Hull-Warriner nomination, Lucille Lortel nomination, and the HelenHayes Award. A former Artist in Residence at Ars Nova and a member of theRoundabout Leadership Council, he worked for three seasons as a writer andproducer on Showtime's Masters of Sex and is a founding member of ColtCoeur and an alumnus of MCC's Playwrights Coalition and Ars Nova's Play Group.His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts. A graduateof Brown University, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.,and the WGA.

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