The team at Simon Pulse—Mara Anastas, Chriscynethia Floyd, Katherine Devendorf, Sara Berko, Caitlin Sweeny, Alissa Nigro, Christina Pecorale, Karen Lahey, Heather Palisi, Mike Rosamilia—you are the heart-shaped glasses of my dreams. Thank you for your unending support, expertise, and optimism. Erica Stahler, please never leave me. I do not care to imagine what my books would be like without you.
Adrienne Verrilli, thank you for your seal of approval. Alexis Sattler, I appreciate your excellent suggestions. Ambika Panday, thank you for your help and your friendship—and get in here, Ariel Berson, Sarah Krohn, and Emily White. Group hug in the acknowledgments, seventh-floor Sulzberger! Greg Chaput, I stole your nurse-and-doctor joke, but at least I’m confessing to it here. Milan Popelka, I still think of the advice and help you gave me five years ago, and I’m very grateful.
Anita Lannom, Patricia Chastain, David Chastain, Carl Chastain, and Laura Emmons, thank you for everything.
Jared Hunter, I love you more than Chloe loves Grady. Wesley, Malcolm, and Fiona: I adore you.
To everyone who’s written to me on Instagram and Twitter: I’m so glad you like this series. Thank you for reading it.
About the Author
EMMA CHASTAIN is a graduate of Barnard College and the creative writing MFA program at Boston University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and children.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Jacket designed by Heather Palisi
Jacket photographs copyright © 2019 by Jill Wachter (boy’s body and girl), Getty Images (boy, glasses, and curtain), and iStock.com/Pratchaya (back cover curtain)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chastain, Emma, 1979- author.
Title: Notes from a former virgin : junior year / by Emma Chastain.
2019. | Summary: “Lovably flawed high school student Chloe Snow chronicles
her junior year as she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship,
school, and losing her virginity”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018058343 (print) | LCCN 2018060320 (eBook) |
ISBN 9781534421127 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534421103 (hc)
Subjects: | CYAC: Friendship—Fiction. | Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Diaries—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.C4955 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.1.C4955 No 2019 (print) |
DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018058343