Val Emmich

Steven Levenson

Benj Pasek

Justin Paul

From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen and soon to be a major motion picture! 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 by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover 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.

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel

nara davies

"When Connor started seventh grade, all my girlfriends said, 'here comes bar mitzvah season. He's going to have a different party every Saturday.' I took him to get a suit, some shirts . . . A tie." She pauses. "He didn't get invited to a single one."

I had to die for them to notice I was ever alive.

When your insides are about to por right out of you and it's to late to stop it. You're naked, everyone watching. They see you there, defenseless, and they pounce. No mercy.

Well, I might be doing another one next weekend."

He told me I was innocent. Which was the opposite of how I viewed myself, but something I felt was true in my heart. He saw me before I saw me.

I stand up. "Who do you think drove me to the hospital? Who do you think waited with me in the emergency room for three hours? You were in class, remember? You didn't answer your phone."

"When would I tell you, exactly? When are you ever here?"

"One night a week?" "Most parents try a little harder than that, just so you know."

To call what I'm feeling numb isn't accurate. If anything, I feeling more now than ever.

"But my whole life, everything has always been about Connor. And right now, I just need something for me"

"If you're not here, then why does it matter where I am?"

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