- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Grief, Death
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Sarah Dessen
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 374
- Publisher
- Viking, dc
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670036394
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Sarah Dessen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels for teens, which have received numerous awards and rave reviews. Her books have been published in over thirty countries and have sold millions of copies worldwide. She is the recipient of the 2017 Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association for outstanding contribution to young adult literature for her novels: Keeping the Moon, Dreamland, This Lullaby, The Truth about Forever, Just Listen, Along for the Ride, and What Happened to Goodbye. Her newest novel, The Rest of the Story, was released in June 2019. An NC native, she currently lives in Chapel Hill with her family. https://sarahdessen.com
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