Philip Beard's stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess De Nunzio'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 na ve, 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 About the Author Philip Beard is a recovering attorney who still practices law part time in Pittsburgh, where he lives with his wife and three daughters.
His first novel, Dear Zoe, was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices Selection, and was chosen as one of the ten best first novels of 2005.
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