Thoughts & Prayers

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780062962256 Author(s): Bryan Bliss Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2021 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pages: 448 Age: 14

Description: 'Inhis unflinching and resonant new novel, Bryan Bliss shows thatthere is no straight line through trauma, no easy recipe for healing. Instead, in three loosely connected stories of young people bound by an all-too familiartragedy, he deftly illuminates the small moments of human connectionand resolve that might just lead to a place of grace.'--Gayle Forman, bestselling author of If I Stay and I Have Lost My Way Fight. Flight. Freeze. What do you dowhen you can't move on, even though the rest of the world seems to have? Powerful and tense, Thoughts & Prayers is an extraordinary novel thatexplores what it means to heal and to feel safe in a world that constantlychooses violence.Claire, Eleanor, and Brezzen have little in common. Claire fled to Minnesota with herolder brother, Eleanor is the face of a social movement, and Brezzen retreatedinto the fantasy world of Wizards & Warriors.Buta year ago, they were linked. They all hid under the same staircase and heardthe shots that took the lives of some of their classmates and a teacher. Now, each one copes with the trauma as best as they can, even as the world aroundthem keeps moving. Told in three looselyconnected but inextricably intertwined stories, National Book Award-longlistedauthor Bryan Bliss's Thoughts & Prayers follows three high schoolstudents in the aftermath of a school shooting. Thoughts & Prayersis a story about gun violence, but more importantly it is the story of whathappens after the reporters leave and the news cycle moves on to the nexttragedy. It is the story of three unforgettable teens who feel forgotten.For readers of JasonReynolds, Marieke Nijkamp, and Laurie Halse Anderson.

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