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Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler

Going Bicoastal

Dahlia Adler

St. Martin's Press · Paperback · May 27, 2025

The paperback edition of Dahlia Adler's award-winning queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com, in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming).

YA Romance - LGBTQ+Romantic Comedy for TeensYA LesbianRomance
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LGBTYoung AdultContemporaryQueerLesbian
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Who it’s for
Alternating timelines make one summer’s romantic possibilities a playful choice.
Genres
YA Romance - LGBTQ+, Romantic Comedy for Teens, YA Lesbian
Published
St. Martin's Press, May 27, 2025

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About this book

The paperback edition of Dahlia Adler's award-winning queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com, in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming). In Dahlia Adler’s Going Bicoastal, there’s more than one path to happily ever after.

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Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?) How's a girl supposed to choose? She can't, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines - one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she's always wanted. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the guy she never saw coming.

Two Summer Paths

Alternating timelines make one summer’s romantic possibilities a playful choice.

Come here for

  • A queer teen rom-com built around two possible summers
  • Romance tangled with family repair and figuring out the future

Expect

  • Alternating timelines, with different romantic possibilities
  • A light touch on questions of love, family, and what comes next

Where it sits

YA Lesbian55%
Romantic Comedy for Teens51%
YA Romance - LGBTQ+50%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Bisexual Fiction
  • YA Romance - LGBTQ+
  • Romantic Comedy for Teens
Authors
Dahlia Adler
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Published
May 27, 2025
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Bisexual Fiction