But away from her mother’s strict expectations, she begins to cut loose. For Dessen fans, Colby is just one of the many Easter egg references to her prior works.Īuden starts working at Clementine’s, a boardwalk boutique selling everything Auden once wouldn’t be caught dead in. The story follows Auden, a studious high school graduate who decides to spend the summer in Colby, a beach town where her father, stepmother and new baby sister live. In 2022, Dessen’s bestselling 2009 novel “Along for the Ride” was adapted as a movie on Netflix, starring Emma Pasarow and Belmont Cameli. The movie received largely negative reviews, but one redeeming quality was the inclusion of renowned actress Mandy Moore.
Her stories often feature high school protagonists finding themselves the summer before college, encountering love along the way.ĭessen’s novels haven’t been adapted for the screen since 2003, when “How to Deal,” an adaptation of “That Summer” and “Someone Like You,” was released. Sarah Dessen’s novels had an absolute chokehold on emerging young adults of the early 2000s.
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