Dear Evan Hansen: THE NOVEL

Val Emmich · Steven Levenson · Benj Pasek · Justin Paul

Oct 2018 · Sold by Poppy

About this ebook

From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen and soon to be a major motion picture! 
Dear Evan Hansen,

Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why...

When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.

Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore– even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend.As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be?

No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself.

A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.

Ratings and reviews

I liked the musical... It was something I could relate too as a guy who didn't really have a standing in society was thrust into the spotlight. I don't really recommend it for kids because there is some language and suggestive lines, but if you like realistic fiction this is a good one to read. It's an engaging book digging into how high schoolers sometimes feel and what they feel they have to do. It's interesting. 150% recommend.

This is amazing but it was based on a true story so it’s more like a nonfiction narrative rather then just plain fiction... ALSO GO SEE THE SHOW ITS AWESOME AND IT MAKES YOU CRY WAY TOO MUCH XD but I can relate to a personal level since I also have some anxiety in my... ok lemme stop maybe a bit more then normal... PTSD for every damn fight in school type of thing, and we’ve had ten fights so this book makes me feel less alone #YouWillBeFound

By far, one of my favorite books. I picked it up because it's my favorite musical, and I 100000% do not regret it :)

About the author

Val Emmich is a New York Times-bestselling author, singer-songwriter, and actor. His novels include The Reminders and Maybe We're Electric.

Steven Levenson is the Tony Award-winning playwright of Dear Evan Hansen. Other plays include Days of Rage, If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, and The Language of Trees. In television, he was a writer and producer on Showtime's Masters of Sex and co-creator of the limited series Fosse/Verdon (FX). Upcoming film projects include the adaptation of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...boom!

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are the Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe-winning songwriting team behind the Broadway musicals Dear Evan Hansen and A Christmas Story, The Musical. Their film projects include: The Greatest Showman, La La Land,Trolls, and Aladdin as well as the upcoming live action musical Snow White and original animated musical Foster.