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Old Enough
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jenna Kray, Haley Jakobson
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction
“Old Enough is full of growth, heartbreak, and winsome bisexual chaos.”—Vogue
A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown
*Isle McElroy
Savannah "Sav" Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she's getting closer. It’s the second semester of her sophomore year. She’s finally come out as bisexual, is making friends with the other queers in her dorm, and has just about recovered from her disastrous first queer “situationship.” She is cautiously optimistic that her life is about to begin.
But when she learns that Izzie, her best friend from childhood, has gotten engaged, Sav faces a crisis of confidence. Things with Izzie haven’t been the same since what happened between Sav and Izzie’s older brother when they were sixteen. Now, with the wedding around the corner, Sav is forced to reckon with trauma she thought she could put behind her.
On top of it all, Sav can’t stop thinking about Wes from her Gender Studies class—sweet, funny Wes, with their long eyelashes and green backpack. There’s something different here—with Wes and with her new friends (who delight in teasing her about this face-burning crush); it feels, terrifyingly, like they might truly see her in a way no one has before.
With a singularly funny, heartfelt voice, Old Enough explores queer love, community, and what it means to be a sexual assault survivor. Haley Jakobson has written a love letter to friendship and an honest depiction of what finding your people can feel like—for better or worse.
What the critics say
Winner of SheReads’s Best of 2023 Award—Contemporary Fiction
A New York Times Editor's Choice
One of Harper's Bazaar's "18 Best Queer Books for Pride Month and Beyond"
One of NBC News' Must-Read Books to Celebrate Bisexuality Day
Featured in NYLON's “June 2023's Must-Read Book Releases”
One of LGBTQ Reads’ Most Anticipated Titles
One of Pink News’ “23 brilliant sapphic books that will be taking over your reading list this year”
Included in Lit Hub's "New Books to Check Out Today"
One of The Messenger's "Best Books to Read During Pride Month"
Featured in the Skimms' “14 Reads That Belong In Your Beach Bag This Summer”
One of The Lesbrary’s “30 New Sapphic Books Out in June”
Included in Autostradde's "Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Summer 2023"
One of Scary Mommy's "12 Queer Romance Novels to Get Your Heart Pumping"
Featured in Fangirlish's “20 LGBTQ+ Books Coming Out This June”
One of Luxury London's “Best Books of June”
Included in Scary Mommy's "New Summer Reads"
“Jakobson is at her best when she allows the bubbles of denial and guilt to rise and burst with Savannah’s anger at her assailant, at her friend, at her mother and at a society that makes it impossible for any legal definition of justice to prevail…Through Old Enough, Jakobson offers a guiding hand to her readers. If you’re going through this mess, you’re not alone, she seems to say, and if you’ve already survived, you’ll understand.”—The New York Times Book Review
“The minute you crack the cover of Haley Jakobson’s Old Enough, you’re likely to recognize protagonist Savannah Henry; not because you’re necessarily queer, or a college student, or a survivor of sexual assault, or a person with a complex relationship to your lifelong BFF, but because Jakobson writes Sav with enough humor, heart, and nuance to make her feel simultaneously relatable and unique… Watching her form a sense of herself and learn to detach her self-worth from the world’s expectations of how survivors should live, love, and heal is genuinely gratifying…Old Enough is full of growth, heartbreak, and winsome bisexual chaos.”—Emma Specter, Vogue
“Equal parts funny and romantic . . . A provocative work of art about a young woman who struggles to accept the pain and trauma of the past while looking forward to brighter days in the future.”—Cosmopolitan, “The Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023”