Dear Zoe - Philip Beard
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Imagine suffering your own personal tragedy and grief on Sept. 11,2001. When the entire nation is in shock and grieving over the loss of so many lives, your grief seems to be swept under the rug.  That is what happens to 15 year old Tess when her little sister is killed by a hit-and-run driver.

 A beautiful coming of age story as Tess comes to understand and works through her personal grief.
Heartwarming and touching!!!

Goodreads summery tells it much better::::
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 naïve, 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.