Interview with Tracy Badua, Author of Never Getting Home

On loss of friendships, music, and grief.

What happens when two friends have a platonic breakup right before a music festival? They have to face their past. Jana and Maddy know things have changed since Maddy got a boyfriend, and Jana doesn’t want to be a third wheel. Talk about awkward, right when they are attending the biggest event of their lives.

Tracy Badua is a prolific Middle-Grade and Young-Adult author. I greatly enjoyed reading The Takeout, about several teens that use…