Sean Edward St. Heart
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: General Fiction, LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
Sean Edward St. Heart is a literary author and screenwriter born and raised in Bangor, Maine, now residing in Washington state in the Pacific Northwest. His work is rooted in emotionally honest storytelling, socially urgent themes, and the complicated terrain of adolescence, identity, grief, friendship, and becoming. His debut novel, The Last Summer of Everything, is a coming-of-age literary novel that explores the fragile intensity of youth, the friendships that shape us, and the summers that change the course of a life. Drawing from a deep interest in character-driven fiction and the moral questions that define ordinary people in extraordinary emotional circumstances, St. Heart writes with a focus on intimacy, atmosphere, and the hidden inner lives of young people. Before turning fully toward literary fiction, St. Heart developed experience in screenwriting, an influence that can be felt in his cinematic sense of scene, dialogue, and emotional pacing.
Sean Edward St. Heart's books
Genres: LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Coldwell, Ohio. Summer. 1994. Some summers don’t end—they change you forever. For thirteen-year-old Eli Marsh and his three best friends—steady Marcus, combustible Danny, and open-hearted Theo—summer is supposed to last forever. Days are measured in reckless bike rides down Cemetery Hill, lazy afternoons along the brown and faithful Wyns River, milkshakes at Dairy Dream, fireworks beneath warm July skies, and the unspoken certainty that childhood will still be waiting for them tomorrow. Eli has his own way of making sense of it all: he writes everything down. The things his friends say. The things his mother notices. The things changing around Coldwell. And, increasingly, the things happening inside himself that he cannot yet bring himself to name. Because this summer is different. Marcus is being pulled toward a future beyond Coldwell. Danny carries troubles he would rather disguise with jokes, anger, and bravado. Theo is discovering the dizzying innocence of...