Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Here are the rules if you want to play along:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week’s teaser is from Songlight by Moira Buffini.

I’m leaving my bedroom for the last time. I can’t take anything with me, as this is supposed to be an ordinary shopping trip. I put my coat on. I haven’t had a new one in years and my arms poke out of the sleeves, embarrassing me with their length, like the soft talons of a baby bird. I glance at myself in my little mirror. After today, I’ll never stare in it again. I’m seventeen but no one would know. I’m small for my age, thin from illness and plain as a bean. My thick spectacles don’t help. I daren’t think about what I’m going to do. My heart is knocking at my ribs.

Stop thinking, I tell myself. Just go. I close the door behind me.

Was going to start a new series but then got this book off of NetGalley. This is the first paragraph and I’m already interested. What’s going on here!?

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Please leave your teasers in comments!

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