I Want To Be A Nobody

Lily Rath, teenage super-genius, has graduated from high school two years early with a full ride to Harvard. There’s just one catch: she doesn’t want to go to college. But she has to, because her family is losing their Los Angeles home. Her father is a washed-up rock star with a shady past and zero work prospects, and her mother, once a world-renowned visual artist, is now irrelevant and flat broke.

Undeterred, Lily runs away from school the morning that classes start, hitting the unwelcoming streets of Boston in the fall of 2016 with nothing but a backpack full of clothes, an eating disorder, a sore lack of hope for humanity, and the aching desire for a simple and pressure-free life. Is such a life even possible for her? '

Over the course of 48 delirious hours, Lily stumbles from Harvard to a hospital bed to an overwhelming burst of clarity that answers that question once and for all. 

Author: Jaimes H-Y
Publisher: self-published
Page Count: 200pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.25
Notes: paperback
Release Date: 2025