{"product_id":"dear-zoe-isbn-9780452287402","title":"Dear Zoe","description":"\u003cb\u003eDON'T MISS THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SADIE SINK OF \u003ci\u003eSTRANGER THINGS\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear Zoe\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naive, world-worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio hasn't been the same since she lost her sister Zoe to a hit-and-run accident on September 11th—when it seemed like nothing mattered except the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. \u003ci\u003eDear Zoe\u003c\/i\u003e is Tess's letter to her sister, written as a means of figuring out her own life and her place in the world—and the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDear Zoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like \u003ci\u003eThe Lovely Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, [\u003ci\u003eDear Zoe\u003c\/i\u003e] is a piercing look at how family recovers from a devastating loss. Everything about this moving, powerful debut rings true.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist’s anguish simply and sensitively...and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Affecting.”—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The whole novel...rings with truth.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Buffalo News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lovely...moving.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In his soulful debut novel...Philip Beard does a pitch-perfect impersonation but never sugar-coats the depths of a young girl's despair.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburg-Post Gazette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDear Zoe\u003c\/i\u003e is an almost flawless novel of self-discovery and redemption. It is the sort of book that a generation can call 'theirs,' a book that captures the trials of adolescence and the aching numbness of America in the aftermath of 9\/11.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Press of Atlantic City\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Beard\u003c\/b\u003e is a former attorney who practiced law in Pittsburgh before turning to writing. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eDear Zoe\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices Selection, and was chosen by \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the ten best first novels of 2005.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302581817573,"sku":"NP9780452287402","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452287402.jpg?v=1767724871","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dear-zoe-isbn-9780452287402","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}