Dear Zoe

by Beard, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780452287402
• ISBN10: 0452287405
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-25
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

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 Zoeis 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. 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

Author Biography

PHILIP BEARD is a writer and attorney. This is his first novel.