From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why... When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore--even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend.As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.

本書は、孤独が生んだ「嘘」がもたらす救済と罪悪感の迷宮を鋭く描いています。SNS時代の承認欲求と孤独が、エヴァンの痛切なモノローグで文学的に昇華されています。一通の手紙から始まる物語は、真実と虚構の境界で揺れる人間の脆さと、自己受容への道のりを浮き彫りにする魂の記録です。 音楽で感情を爆発させる舞台版に対し、小説は沈黙や葛藤を緻密に描写し、キャラクターの心理を深く補完しています。舞台の熱狂を内省的な共感へと変え、物語が持つ救済というテーマをより多層的に味わえる、文学ならではの没入体験がここにあります。