Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich focuses on the story of Evan Hansen. Evan is a socially awkward, introverted person. He looks for ways to be in the background, as he uses online media as a way of shielding himself from other people around him. After a classmate of his dies by suicide, the family of the student accidentally believed that Evan was his close friend. He feels responsible for doing something to uplift the family even though he had nothing to do with the classmate. By faking email discussions between himself and his classmate and putting up a website for himself, Evan soon finds recognition from his school for his honorable actions. The book then discusses the positives that came from this in his life, followed by some less pleasant moments in Evan’s life because of his former actions.
I enjoyed this book as it discusses the impact of dishonesty in the life of a person in an entertaining and tense plot. The ending is quite predictable, but the story is compelling enough to give it a read. Four marks from a maximum of five.