What is Don Zolidis reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Don Zolidis, author of The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig (a Love Story).

His entry begins:

I just finished Bree Barton’s Heart of Thorns, which is a beautifully-written, fast-moving YA epic fantasy set in a world where only women have magic. I’m also...[read on]

About The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig (a Love Story), from the publisher:

Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God)
1994

“You’re going to find somebody so much better than me.”

“What? No, I’m not! Look at me! Are you insane?”

The worst thing that’s ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Craig and Amy should never have gotten together-Craig is a Dungeons and Dragons master with no life skills and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student body president of their high school.

Yet somehow they did until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Seven times to be exact.

Over the course of their senior year, Amy and Craig’s exhilarating, tumultuous relationship is a kaleidoscope of joy and pain as an uncertain future-and adult responsibility-looms on the horizon.

Craig fights for his dream of escaping Janesville and finding his place at a quirky college, while Amy’s quest to uncover her true self sometimes involves being Craig’s girlfriend and sometimes doesn’t.

Seven breakups. Seven makeups. Seven of the highest lows and lowest highs. Told non-sequentially, acclaimed playwright Don Zolidis’s debut novel is a brutally funny, bittersweet taste of the utterly unique and utterly universal experience of first love.

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My Book, The Movie: The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig.

Writers Read: Don Zolidis.

--Marshal Zeringue