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Sorry for Your Loss
Sorry for Your Loss | Jessie Ann Foley
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From Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes a comitragic YA novel that will appeal to fans of Jandy Nelson and Jeff Zentner. As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. Hes barely passing his classes. His lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And hes in no hurry to decide on a college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who wont talk about it and acquaintances who just keep saying, sorry for your loss. When Pup excels at a photography assignment he thought hed bomb, things start to come into focus. His dream girl shows her true colors. An unexpected friend exposes Pup to a whole new world, right under his nose. And the photograph that was supposed to show Pup a way out of his grief ultimately reveals someone else who is still stuck in their own. Someone with a secret regret Pup never could have imagined.
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MaggieCarr
Sorry for Your Loss | Jessie Ann Foley
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Wow. This gem is hidden in a YA book and flying way under the radar. Pup is 27 years younger than his oldest sister, there are 8 siblings all together. 3 boys and 5 girls, when the middle son contracts and dies of meningitis in college the rest of the family tailspins replacing his high school graduation photo on the stairway, never speaking on his name, and never grieving together. All 30 family members live super close together and their...

MaggieCarr ...togetherness should offer healing but instead it's severely disjointed. As Pup tries mourning on his own close friends distance themselves, new friends appear and an art class changes everything. Written in parts about focus, light, framing, background, color and more the theme shines in this book and you are instantly connected to Pup and his family, in spirit, motivation, and emotion! 2y
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Sorry for Your Loss | Jessie Ann Foley
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As much as I liked the writing, I had a hard time finding the direction of the story, or the point. It was as if the story had an identity crisis. I enjoyed the characters, but some parts were unnecessarily over dramatic and the main character remained out of focus. The end (if you can call it that) was anticlimactic. More of a 2.5 stars, I'm rounding up to 3.

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Sorry for Your Loss | Jessie Ann Foley
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Stopped at Barnes with a few coupons 🤔

Aristotle and Dante also made it in as an impulse purchase.. 🤦‍♀️

AmberWB I LOVE those socks!! 5y
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