Overview
After her brother’s death, a teen struggles to rediscover love and find redemption in this “stunningly powerful free-verse story” (VOYA). Growing up, London and Zach were as close as could be. And then Zach dies, and the family is gutted. London’s father is distant. Her mother won’t speak. The days are filled with what-ifs and whispers: Was it London’s fault? Alone and adrift, London finds herself torn between her brother’s best friend and the handsome new boy in town as she struggles to find herself—and ultimately redemption—in this authentic and affecting novel from award-winning novelist Carol Lynch Williams.
Full Product Details
Author: Carol Lynch Williams
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Paula Wiseman Books
Edition: Reprint
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 17.80cm
Weight: 0.225kg
ISBN: 9781442443549
ISBN 10: 1442443545
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 07 May 2013
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Gut-wrenching.
Thoroughly engaging, heartbreaking, with a taste of hope. --Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer, a Newbery Honor Book
Thoroughly engaging, heartbreaking, with a taste of hope. Williams, as always, keeps her prose, this time arranged on the page as prose poems, sensitive, intelligent and completely absorbing. She slowly peels back the veils on London's, her father's and her mother's psychology, eventually revealing the strong and the weak and, ultimately, how Zach died. The family she depicts are former missionaries, giving the book strong spiritual undertones that should appeal to religious as well as general audiences. Exceptional. *STARRED review Exposing the heartbreak of a broken family, the complexities of denial, and the healing power of friendship, Lynch's ( Miles from Ordinary) writing is characteristically gritty but also inspirational as London challenges her mother's misplaced anger and creates her own route to recovery. *STARRED review Exceptional. Inspirational. Gut-wrenching. With a format and voice that will resonate with teens, Carol Lynch Williams offers a poignant story of strength and healing, all bound by the power of love and friendship. This is YA at its very best! --Daniel L. Darigan, Professor of Education, West Chester University.
Author Information
Carol Lynch Williams is a PEN Award–winning author of more than a dozen books and a graduate of the Vermont College MFA program. Carol facilitates the children’s writing conferences at Utah Valley University and Brigham Young University. She lives in Utah with her family. Visit her at CarolLynchWilliams.com.
