Booth
Meet Rochelle "Elle" Evans: pretty, popular--and never been kissed. Meet Noah Flynn: badass, volatile--and a total player. When Elle decides to run a kissing booth at her school's Spring Carnival, she locks lips with Noah and her life is turned upside down. Her head says to keep away, but her heart wants to draw closer. This romance seems far from a fairy tale. Is Elle headed for heartbreak or will she get her happily ever after? When never-been-kissed Elle decides to run a kissing booth at her school's Spring Carnival, she locks lips with volatile Noah and her life is turned upside down. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and minor violence.
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From a Maryland farm in the 1820s through the night of Ford's Theatre, a literary novel follows the Booth family of stage actors and the slow, quiet shaping of the brother who would change American history.
Booth was written by Karen Joy Fowler and published in 2022. It is a historical novel about the Booth family, including John Wilkes Booth before the Lincoln assassination. Fowler also wrote We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
Booth is fictional but built closely on the real history of the Booth acting family. Karen Joy Fowler researched the period extensively, and most events and family relationships are documented.
Booth is 442 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Booth takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
Booth is a standalone novel by Beth Reekles, not part of a series.
Booth is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
