Her Name in the Sky

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He said LSU losing the championship pushed him over the edge. Said he’d rather root for the Tide for the next four years. Asshole.” They ride over pebbles and patches of dusk-colored sunlight, underneath the spread arms of the live oaks and the promise of their green leaves, past houses full of people and rules and prayers and magic. Hannah looks at Baker, and Baker extends her hand outward into the space between them, holding it palm-up for Hannah to take, right there in the heart of the garden.”

Her Name in the Sky is a young adult novel about two best friends who can’t help falling in love during their senior year at a Catholic school in southern Louisiana. As they try to figure out their relationship, they grapple with the religious and cultural constraints of their community and, more severely, with internalized homophobia. The story has a happy ending. Hate like that—when it's disguised as love, or righteousness or pity—I'm not going to subject you to hate like that.” Yeah, but he grew up here,” Jungkook says. “Anyway, the hell with him. I’m glad I don’t have to spend another four years dealing with his shit. He always challenged just about every decision I made as captain.”Everything’s great for Harper Isabelle, the most popular girl in grade nine. That is, until she meets Sarah Jamieson. Seventeen-year-old Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties. She wants to drive along the oak-lined streets of Louisiana's Garden District and lie on the hot sand of Florida's beaches. She wants to spend every night making memories with her tight-knit group of friends. Shut up. You are disgusting. Bye y’all,” Jisoo says, and then she grabs Jin’s hand and pulls him toward the senior parking lot. The student body breaks into whooping and applause. It starts in Hannah’s section, with the senior class, and moves all around the gym as the juniors, sophomores, and freshmen echo their older peers. “Yeah!” Luke shouts amidst all the cheering. “Bring on the burritos!”

I self-published the novel in 2014. Tantor Media published the audiobook version, narrated by the actress Piper Goodeve, in 2017. HNITS has sold over 30,000 copies all around the world. He looks the same as ever,” Jin says. “Like he’s high and doesn’t know what he’s doing here. Gotta love old Coach.” The following week at school, during Lisa and Felix’s unassigned period, Felix asks her if she wants to go somewhere off campus. “Off campus?” she asks. “What, like, just to experience the thrill of maybe getting caught?”

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Sorry,” Lisa says, leading the way out of the stands. “I’m sure tomorrow night or next weekend we’ll be doing something!” That night, Joanie decides Hannah and Baker are the best friends ever made. A few years later, after her and Hannah’s relationship heals from its early teenage hardships, after Baker and Hannah spend nearly every day glued at the hip, after they write on their bodies with greedy fingers the language only they speak, Joanie realizes how wrong she was.

Jin pulls up his t-shirt in a fit of mania so that the red Tiger Spirit! imprint catches around his armpits and his white undershirt is on full display to everyone across the gym. He makes to take the shirt all the way off, but Lisa elbows him and points down at Mr Kim, whose small, beady eyes are glaring daggers at Jin from beneath the basketball hoop.We have to take ownership for our words. Words are powerful. They can be devastating. If your words carry hate--if they shame others, if they make them doubt that they are loved--Hannah, you don't want to own words like that.” Joanie would have hit you harder, Wally says, hiking his eyebrows high above the rims of his glasses. Chaeyoung kisses the side of Lisa’s face, right where her skin meets her hairline. “I didn’t feel like I did,” she says. “But I do now.” Lisa knows that Chaeyoung does not see in herself the same miracle of goodness Lisa sees in her. She knows that Chaeyoung struggles to measure up to her sister, that she desperately craves her mother’s approval that she worries constantly about whether or not she’s a fair team captain or an effective student council president. “You’re amazing,” Lisa wants to tell her. “You’re the best thing that’s ever been.” But Lisa knows that Chaeyoung, when she’s not smiling at parties and laughing with their friends in the parking lot, carries these secret worries in her heart, worries that Lisa wishes she knew the full extent of, worries that Lisa sees in Chaeyoung’s eyes when Chaeyoung thinks no one is looking. I know you lost your copy,” Lisa says, stepping nearer to her. “And I thought you might want a hardcover edition.”

Hannah turns around and places her hands on Baker’s shoulders. I have a secret errand to take care of.All of that has changed now,” Chaeyoung says. “We had an overall winning record this past fall, all of our seniors are braces-free and beautiful, and Jungkook now stands at—what are you, four-foot-eight?”