Kiss the Girls (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians

A mother comes in. Her teenage son has an assignment where he has to read a nonfiction or a fiction book. I recommend an adult title, James Patterson’s Kiss the Girls, but with a warning. “Now,” I say, “there’s a little bit of sex in it. I’m telling you because you’re the mom and you’re buying this book.” “I’m okay with it,” she says. She later makes sure to tell me that her son enjoyed the book, and he did well on his report.