Dear Zoe, by Philip Beard

Debut Novel

2018 A to Z Challenge - "D"

Another book that lingered on my shelf for years despite the fact that I was really interested in reading it!  A rather short book but packed with a lot of feels.

Our main character is Tess who is 15.  The book is told as a "letter" written to her youngest sister who was killed by a hit and run driver on 9-11.  A book about how personal grief got swallowed up on a day when the nation grieved as a whole.

Tess is a character that I think many can relate to whether it be on the subject of grief, teenage angst, divorced/blended families, figuring out ones self.  You sometimes forget that this is written by a man as the female teenage voice seems so authentic (well, there is one moment of male ego that does remind the reader that yes, this was written by a man - ha ha)

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