DEAR EVAN HANSEN: THE NOVEL

u003cbu003e** INSTANT u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BESTSELLER **u003c/bu003eu003cbu003eUSA TODAY BESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eWSJ BESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eINDIE BOUND BESTSELLERu003c/bu003e u003cbu003eu003cbu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eFrom the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the hit Broadway show u003ciu003eDear Evan Hansenu003c/iu003e. u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eDear Evan Hansen, u003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eToday's going to be an amazing day and here's why...u003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eWhen a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefu003cbu003e u003c/bu003eover 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eSuddenly, 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.u003cbu003e u003c/bu003eAs 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? u003cbru003eu003cbru003eNo 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eA 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.