Dear Zoe |
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| Authors: | Beard, Philip |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | YAF058110, YAF011000, YAF016000 |
| ISBN: | 9781440649547, Related ISBNs: 0452287405, 0670034010, 1440649545, 9780452287402, 9780670034017 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 208, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: Philip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naïve, world- worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Tess begins her letter to Zoe as a means of figuring out her own life, her place in the world, but the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours. BACKCOVER: “Like The Lovely Bones, [Dear Zoe] is a piercing look at how family recovers from a devastating loss. Everything about this moving, powerful debut rings true.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist’s anguish simply and sensitively. . . and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters.”
—The Washington Post
“The whole novel . . . rings with truth.”
—The Buffalo News
—Booklist (starred review)
“Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist’s anguish simply and sensitively. . . and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters.”
—The Washington Post
“The whole novel . . . rings with truth.”
—The Buffalo News
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