Holding Up the Universe

Jennifer Niven

A YA contemporary romance about Libby Strout, once dubbed 'America's Fattest Teen,' who returns to high school determined to reclaim her life after years of grief and isolation, and Jack Masselin, a popular boy secretly living with face blindness (prosopagnosia). A cruel prank throws them together into mandatory counseling and community service, where their unlikely friendship slowly deepens into love as each helps the other learn to be truly seen. The story alternates between their voices as they confront bullying, family secrets, and their own insecurities.