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Last Night at the Circle Cinema
Last Night at the Circle Cinema (Fiction - Young Adult)
Last Night at the Circle Cinema
Emily Franklin
Olivia, Bertucci, and Codman were the trio no one else in high school could quite figure out, an impenetrable triangle of friendship. Now they're graduating and about to start new lives away at college and without one another. Beyond their friendship, there's one thing they have in common: the Circle Cinema, a once-thriving old movie theater now reduced to a boarded up concrete box, condemned and about to be forgotten forever which is, as far as Olivia and Codman can tell, a lot like what's going to happen to them. So in one last desperate effort to hold on to the secrets they share, Bertucci hatches a plan an experiment, really. He convinces Olivia and Codman to join him in spending their last night before graduation locked inside the cinema's concrete walls. None of them can open the box before sunrise. Over the course of the night, the trio is then forced to face one another, the events of the past year, and whatever is to come when the new day dawns.Emily Franklin's Last Night at the Circle Cinema is the story of a friendship's end and moving rebirth.

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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • Mature Young Adult
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Last Night at the Circle Cinema is a coming-of-age novel by Emily Franklin that follows the last night that three high school seniors have together before they graduate. Olivia, Bertucci, and Codman are in a friendship “triangle” that has complications as they each navigate their aspirations, the dynamics of their relationships, and loss. The mastermind, Bertucci, strategically plans the night with relics of their past that send each friend down memory lane. The truths of the past are uncovered, despite how much they each try to bury them.

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