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Going Bicoastal

Dahlia Adler

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.

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Wednesday Books
  • Publish Date: May 27th, 2025
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.40in - 0.90in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9781250391377
  • Recommended age: 13-18
  • Categories: Romance - LGBTQ+Romance - Romantic ComedyLGBTQ+ - Bisexual

About the Author

Adler, Dahlia: - DAHLIA ADLER is an editor by day, a freelance writer by night, and an author and anthologist at every spare moment in between. She's the founder of LGBTQReads; her novels include the Kids' Indie Next picks Cool for the Summer, Home Field Advantage, and Going Bicoastal, a Sydney Taylor Honor book; and she is the editor of the anthologies His Hideous Heart, That Way Madness Lies, At Midnight, and, with Jennifer Iacopelli, Out of Our League. Dahlia lives in New York with her family and a wall of overflowing bookcases.

Praise for this book

Praise for Going Bicoastal:

A July/August 2023 Kids Indie Next Pick!
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year!
A Sydney Taylor Book Award Silver Medalist!
A Rainbow Book List Pick!
A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick!

"Adler manages to make a tricky, high-concept premise look easy, grounding the stories in character and culture." - Booklist (starred review)

"A sweet and joyful romance times two." - Kirkus

"A fun and affirming story of a bisexual Jewish teen embraced and celebrated for both identities by her family and peers make this book a necessary purchase." - School Library Journal

"Adler's enticing prose teems with a vibrancy born of intimately realized bicoastal settings and titillating romantic possibility." - Publishers Weekly

"Dahlia Adler is a name you need to know in queer YA...[Going Bicoastal] just as good as the stunning cover would suggest! This is the most bisexually structured book I've ever read." - Book Riot, "Our Queerest Shelves"

"This is [Dahlia Adler's] best book so far and one of my favorite books of the year." - Paste Magazine

"This is what it looks like when a brilliant high concept (bisexual Sliding Doors) is executed to perfection. It's got all the Dahlia Adler trademarks―romance, wry humor, specificity, and genuine emotional depth." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Kate in Waiting and Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda

Praise for Home Field Advantage:

"Adler's magnificent new romance is a glorious touchdown of a book." - Buzzfeed

"This YA contemporary romance has not only a sweet sapphic love story but juicy narratives about football and cheerleading." - Autostraddle

"Bubbly cheerleader Amber McCloud falls for star quarterback Jaclyn "Jack" Walsh in Adler's winning queer take on the classic meet-cute." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A swoonworthy romance about breaking the glass ceiling and being true to yourself, Adler's Home Field Advantage is a fun, queer twist on the quarterback/cheerleader trope that will suck you in from the very first page." - The Nerd Daily

"A combination of sizzling chemistry and heartfelt vulnerability makes the star-crossed romance between Amber and Jack irresistible. Home Field Advantage insists that women belong on the field--as cheerleaders whose athleticism should receive the recognition it deserves and as players granted the same opportunities as their male peers. Teen readers will applaud Amber and Jack's fight to be their authentic selves." - Shelf Awareness

"A bubbly LGBTQ romance that puts a fresh new twist on the age-old relationship trope of the high school football quarterback and the team cheer captain." - Paste Magazine

Praise for Cool for the Summer:

"Witty, wise, and disarmingly tender. I am hopelessly devoted to this summer dream of a book." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Kate in Waiting and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

"[S]trung through with humor, warmth, and sensuality, this romance will speak to any reader who has ever struggled to know their own heart." - Booklist (starred review)

"Un-bi-lievably good." - Buzzfeed

"Dahlia Adler's latest has me longing for the summer. This story of a bi girl discovering who she is and who holds her heart sounds like the perfect summer 2021 read." - Bookish

"There are so many more reasons to pick up this YA romance... Cool for the Summer is the perfect addition to your LGBTQ+ YA reading list." - Shondaland

"This book is a gamechanger for queer Jewish teens." - Alma

"A delightful, lighthearted romantic comedy." - The Seattle Times

"With its summery vibes and rollercoaster of queer confusion, Cool for the Summer is the sexy, sweet and steamy beach read of the year!" - The Nerd Daily