Dear Zoe

By: Philip Beard

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Paperback | 1 April 2006 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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18+

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19.7 x 13.0 x 1.1

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Philip Beard's stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio'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. Dear Zoe 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. 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: "Like 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."-Booklist (starred review) "Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist's anguish simply and sensitively. . . and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters."-The Washington Post "The whole novel . . . rings with truth."-The Buffalo News

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Praise for Dear Zoe

"Like 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."-Booklist (starred review)

"Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist's anguish simply and sensitively...and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters."-The Washington Post

"Affecting."-Entertainment Weekly

"The whole novel...rings with truth."-The Buffalo News

"Lovely...moving."-Publishers Weekly

"In his soulful debut novel...Philip Beard does a pitch-perfect impersonation but never sugar-coats the depths of a young girl's despair."-Pittsburg-Post Gazette

"Dear Zoe 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."-The Press of Atlantic City

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