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For fans of�Love Letters to the Dead�and�I'll Give You the Sun�comes a heartrending story of a teen who sets out on an unusual quest.� � For months, Tallie McGovern has been coping with the death of her older brother the only way she knows how: by smiling bravely and pretending that she's okay. She's managed to fool her friends, her parents, and her teachers, yet she can't even say his name out loud: "N--" is as far as she can go. Then Tallie comes across a letter in the mail, and it only takes two words to crack the careful fa�ade she's built up: � ORGAN DONOR.� Two words that had apparently been checked off on her brother's driver's license; two words that her parents knew about--and never revealed to her. All at once, everything Tallie thought she understood about her brother's death feels like a lie. And although a part of her knows he's gone forever, another part of her wonders if finding the letter might be a sign. That if she can just track down the people on the other end of those two words, it might somehow bring him back. � Hannah Barnaby's deeply moving novel asks questions there are no easy answers to as it follows a family struggling to pick up the pieces, and a girl determined to find the brother she wasn't ready to let go of. (less)
For fans of�Love Letters to the Dead�and�I'll Give You the Sun�comes a heartrending story of a teen who sets out on an unusual quest.� � For months, Tallie McGovern has been coping with the death of her older brother the only way she (…more)
Well, wasn't THAT a tear-jerker. But in an honest way. I loved the emotional realism, and the fact that the focus is the love of a family, without any messy, forced romance.