"Camille Collins has a voice like water. There is lush music in her debut novel─each word flows with purpose and beauty. In the big sea of young adult literature, The Exene Chronicles casts a powerful net and takes us in─heart and all." ─ KWAME ALEXANDER, Newbery medalist and New York Times bestselling author of Rebound

“It is a pleasure to discover or perhaps that should be un-cover a first book by a new writer. Camille Collins has bravely and with courage given us a coming of age story that we will enjoy sharing with our teenage sons and daughters. And we look forward to the next book.” ─ New York Times bestselling poet, NIKKI GIOVANNI

"Camille Collins has written a wonderfully bold and sensual coming-of-age novel. There is an intensity and beauty to the writing with a remarkably compelling voice. Certain books we read in adolescence stay with us for life. The Exene Chronicles is such a book." – PATTY DANN, author of Mermaids, The Butterfly Hours, and The Wright Sister