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Cookie akzeptierenAlison McGhee
What I Leave Behind
- Simon Spotlight
- 2018
- Gebunden
- 208 Seiten
- ISBN 9781481476560
"An artful exercise in melancholy…Every reader will love openhearted Will." ?Booklist (starred review) "Haunting, introspective." ?Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Emotionally raw…[A] piercing narrative." ?Publishers Weekly (starred review) "McGhee artfully illustrates the tangled web wherein grief intertwines with the mundane." ?BCCB After his dad dies of suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him in this exquisitely crafted story made up of one hundred chapters of one hundred words each, by award-winning and bestselling author Alison McGhee. Sixteen-year-old Will spends most of his days the same way: Working at the Dollar Only store, trying to replicate his late father's famous cornbread recipe, and walking the streets of Los Angeles. Will started walking after his father committed suicide, and three years later he hasn't stopped. But there are some places Will can't walk by: The blessings store with the chest of 100 Chinese blessings in the back, the bridge on Fourth Street where his father died, and his childhood friend Playa's house. When Will learns Playa was raped at a party?a party he was at, where he saw
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