Teen Comedy-Drama

Nora and I Stole a Car - A Modern Teenage Love Story

2023

Genre: Coming of Age


Sub-Genres: First Love Romance

Oliver impulsively steals the car of his high school’s gang leader, hoping it will get the kid to leave the party he crashed—transforming Oliver overnight from a shy nerd to a school legend, a target, a disaster at home, and a first love that Nora will never forget.

Synopsis: Nora and I Stole a Car

- A Modern Teenage Love Story

Author: Gary Marks

Told through a high-school autobiography assignment, Nora and I Stole a Car follows Oliver, a sixteen-year-old trying to survive school, family, and the mysteries of first love.

Nora and Oliver fall in love over a secret Nora insisted on telling him. His life changes the night a local hood named VW crashes the birthday party of Nora’s best friend, Cassie.

Acting on impulse, Oliver steals VW’s car to get him and his two weird friends to leave. By the next morning, Nora is impressed, Cassie is thankful, his classmates think he is a legend, and the adults in his life are horrified.

What follows is a coming-of-age novel filled with questionable decisions, unexpected heroes, and the kind of moments that seem enormous when you're sixteen... because they are.

This is Oliver’s story to tell: about love, loyalty, the people who inspire him, and those who try to stop him from who he wants to become.

Some of those people don't remain in our lives for long. But they remain part of us long after they leave.