num_pages: 368
description: From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen.Dear Evan HansenToday's going to be an amazing day and here's why...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.Suddenly Evan isn't invisible anymore--even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents with their beautiful home on the other side of town 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 swirl of anger regret and confusion he knows that what he's doing can't 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. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and 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.
language: English
title: Dear Evan Hansen
publisher: Poppy