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Some Faraway Place: A Bright Sessions Novel
Some Faraway Place: A Bright Sessions Novel
Some Faraway Place: A Bright Sessions Novel
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Some Faraway Place: A Bright Sessions Novel

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Some Faraway Place, the third Bright Sessions novel from creator Lauren Shippen, features Rose, who has her humdrum life flipped upside down when she starts to travel into dreams.

Rose’s mother can see the future. Her father can move things with his mind. Her brother, Aaron, can read thoughts. And Rose, well… she makes a mean spaghetti bolognese.

Everyone else in her family is Atypical, which means they manifested an ability that defies the limits of the human experience. At nineteen, well past the average age of manifestation, Rose is stuck defending her decision not to go to college and instead work in the kitchen of a local restaurant, hoping to gain the experience she needs to become a chef.

When a Rollerblading accident sends her to the hospital, she meets a girl she can't forget, and she starts to feel like maybe her life isn't quite so small. But when she starts falling asleep mid-conversation, only to find herself in other peoples' dreams, she thinks, Then again maybe I’m doomed to never have good things.

Rose should be happy—diving into dreams makes her a part of her family in the way she's always wanted. But the more time she spends in the dreamworld, the more complicated her ability becomes. Trying to balance her work, her power, and her girlfriend who doesn’t know about Atypicals, Rose seeks help. But she soon discovers that dreamdiving comes with dangers she never could have imagined. Even her carefully constructed dreamworld isn’t safe.

This is the story of Atypical Rose, who discovers that dreams coming true isn’t always a good thing.


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LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 28, 2021
ISBN9781250297587
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Lauren Shippen

LAUREN SHIPPEN, author of The Infinite Noise, is a writer best known for her work in fiction podcasts. She is the creator and sole writer of the popular audio drama, The Bright Sessions. She went on to executive produce The AM Archives and co-produce Passenger List before founding Atypical Artists, a company dedicated to audio storytelling. She wrote MARVELS, an audio adaptation of the popular comic, released in 2019 by Marvel and Stitcher. Lauren was named one of Forbes's 2018 30 Under 30 in Media and one of MovieMaker Magazine's and Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch. She was born in New York City and grew up in Bronxville, New York. She currently lives in Los Angeles but travels frequently to New York.

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    teen/adult fiction - this installment features Rose, a 19-year-old who opted to follow her passion and work in a restaurant rather than go to college like her classmates, until she starts to fall asleep in the middle of the day without warning when her dream-diving superpower (genetically based) starts to develop.Her storyline, complete with mom, dad, and brother with separate superpowers and issues of their own, is less compelling than the first two Bright Sessions novels. Rose's narrative is interspersed with blog entries of her fan-fic-writing meet-cute would-be girlfriend, and also with letters written by the troubled Damien (of the previous book), so the narrative does eventually get hijacked by Damien's drama (as such, it will help the reader to have read #2 before this book, but also -- this one isn't really that interesting to read by comparison).

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