Log Off

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>In the early 2000s from a dial-up connection in a Western New York suburb sixteen-year-old Ellora Gao logs on to the Internet to start a secret LiveJournal. Abandoned as a child by her troubled mother and left with her former stepfather Brian an emotionally distant alcoholic Ellora hopes to find the close relationships online that are missing from her real life. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>But her online diary isn't entirely serious it's also where she can gossip and rant about music books and everyone at her high school including two intriguing new friends Alice a reformed bad girl and Tiff a cocky musical prodigy. As the school year unfolds Ellora shares every challenge she faces with her growing LiveJournal readership: memories of her estranged mother frustration with Brian's lack of parenting concern for Alice's health romantic feelings for Tiff and her place in a post-Y2K world on the cusp of major change.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>​​If one is very fortunate a few books will fundamentally change their life. Such is the case for me and </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Log Off</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> an indelibly wise coming-of-age story crackling with humor and nostalgia. Felicetti will heal you delight you and make you want to hug your younger self; </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Log Off</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is an instant classic a heartbreaker and a balm and we're all the luckier for it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-T Kira Māhealani Madden author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Log Off</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a time machine brilliantly evoking the Y2K era in all its LiveJournal glory. Kristen Felicetti's prose feels as real and intimate as making a friend on the Internet for the very first time and finding the key to her diary-I loved it. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Chelsea Hodson author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Tonight I'm Someone Else</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Log Off </em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is a brilliant and inventive debut with an unforgettable voice. Kristen Felicetti's writing is so off-handedly wise and instructive I couldn't help but think of</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Log Off</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> as a survival manual and by the end of my reading all other survival manuals were now obsolete. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Bud Smith author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Teenager</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><br></p>