Dear Zoe

Dear Zoe

Philip Beardâ€™s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzioâ€™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.Â Dear ZoeÂ is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naÃ¯ve, 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: â€œLikeÂ 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.â€
â€”BooklistÂ (starred review)Â

â€œBeard peels away the layers of his protagonistâ€™s anguish simply and sensitively. . . and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters.â€
â€”The Washington PostÂ

â€œThe whole novel . . . rings with truth.â€
â€”The Buffalo News
Country USA
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2006-04-25
Format Kindle eBook

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