Dash+and+Lily's

** By: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan **
 * Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares **



**Setting:** New York City

 * ===== The Strand Book Store =====
 * ===== Dash’s home, Lily’s home, Priya’s home =====
 * ===== Sophia’s hotel =====
 * ===== The park where Dash threw the snow ball and was arrested with Lily =====
 * ===== Aunt Ida’s house =====
 * ===== Grandpa’s apartment =====

** Characters: **

 * ===== **Dash-** Sophia’s ex, threw a snowball at a kid and was red alerted by moms, arrested for being a supposed accomplice of Lily to steal the baby =====
 * ===== **Cousin Mark-** Strand Cashier =====
 * ===== **Priya-** Sophia’s friend and the party thrower =====
 * ===== **Sophia-** Dash’s ex, they somewhat get back together, they part as friends, speaks Catalan and is from Spain =====
 * ===== **Lily-** (Lily of the Field, Lily Bear, Shrilly,) has a sleepover with her soccer buddies, lively, arrested for “stealing” a baby, kept Boris the dog after his owner was arrested for keeping him illegally, soccer player and has a sleepover with her teammates =====
 * ===== **Carolers-** Melvin (computer guy), Roberta (retired HS choir teacher), Shee’nah (cross-dressing part-time choreographer/part-time waiter), Aryn (angry, vegan, riot, grrrl NYU film student), and Mark (look up at 2nd bullet). =====
 * ===== **Grandpa-** Lily’s grandfather, wants to be engaged to Glama(Mabel), overprotective of Lily =====
 * ===== **Lily’s Parents-** mom is an English professor, on a Fiji vacation, they might move to Fiji with Lily =====
 * ===== **Langston-** Lily’s gay brother, broke up with Benny, got back together with Benny =====
 * ===== **Dash’s Parents-** Divorced. Dad is remarried and mom has a boyfriend named Giovanni =====
 * ===== **Spazzy-** Lily’s gerbil in the first grade, was eaten bye a cat named Tiger by Edgar Thibaud, =====
 * ===== **Edgar Thibaud-** Gerbil killer, Lily dates him but gets drunk and they fizzle out =====
 * ===== **Benny-** Langston’s bf, they take a break, get back together in the end =====
 * ===== **Santa-** (Uncle Sal) makes Dash dig under his stomach fat for the next note from Lily =====
 * ===== **Boomer-** (John)Dash’s best friend, jumpy and described as a puppy =====
 * ===== **Great-aunt Ida-** Works at Madame Tussauds, persnickety, sarcastic, rough around the edges, loving to Lily, rich =====

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Dash and Lily are both alone for Christmas. Dash chose to stay alone, while Lily’s parents went on vacation and her grandfather and brother deserted her. Dash finds Lily’s red notebook in the JD Salinger section of The Strand. This notebook takes them on a 10-day adventure throughout New York City as talk through it. They’ve never met each other but they pour their thoughts and worries out in this notebook. As the story progresses, we learn more about them while they learn more about each other and themselves. =====

** Key Details: **

 * ===== Dash wants an OED (Oxford English Dictionary) for Christmas [20 volumes] =====
 * ===== Red Moleskine Notebook =====
 * ===== The books he had to grab- French Pianism: An Historical Perspective, Fat Hoochie Prom Queen, The Joy of Gay Sex (3rd Edition), What the Living Do. =====
 * ===== Lily knows beyond the 2nd verse of Christmas music. =====
 * ===== Langston is on his second boyfriend. =====
 * ===== Grandpa’s lady-friend, Mabel, lives in Florida. =====
 * =====// Franny and Zooey // is Lily’s personal anthem. =====
 * ===== Dash sends Lily to Two Boots, to see //Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer//, FAO Schwarz, a Hanukah band part. =====
 * ===== Lily sends Dash to Macy’s, Madame Tussauds, the Nutcracker House, =====
 * ===== Lily left Dash //Miracle on 34th Street// at the movie place. =====
 * ===== Dash’s note with Santa was under his stomach. =====
 * ===== Lily wore her Great-aunt Ida’s majorette boots. =====
 * ===== Lily bakes Lebkuchen Spice cookies to put with the note behind Grandma. =====
 * ===== Snarly the puppet looks like a child of Miss Piggy and Animal =====
 * ===== Dash bought 6 postcards =====
 * ===== Dash eats yogurt. =====
 * ===== Mark had a syringe of chocolate when he ate with Boomer and Lily. =====
 * ===== The dog’s name is Boris. =====
 * ===== Dash and Lily were arrested. =====
 * ===== New Years: Lily and Dash cooked weird Rice Crispy Treats in a famous kitchen, spent the night locked in the Strand’s basement, and Dash saw the OED in the Strand basement. =====
 * ===== Their first kiss didn’t go well but they tried again and liked it. =====