The Year After You
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4.4 • 15 Ratings
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
"I love this sad, beautiful, hopeful book." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends With the Dark
For fans of Nina LaCour and Jennifer Niven, a richly layered novel that's both uplifting and heartbreaking, about piecing yourself together after loss and the dark truths we choose to keep from each other and ourselves.
San Francisco. New Year's Eve. A tragic accident after the party of the year. Cara survives. Her best friend, G, doesn't.
Nine months later, Cara is still struggling, consumed by grief and a dark secret she'd rather forget. In the hopes of offering a fresh start, her mother sends her to boarding school in Switzerland, a place where no one knows what happened--and where they never will, if Cara can help it.
But her new classmates Ren and Hector won't let her close herself off. They are determined to break down the walls she has so carefully built up. And maybe Cara wants them to . . . especially Hector, who seems to understand her like no one else does.
The problem is that the closer Cara gets to Hector, the more G slips away. If moving on means letting go of the past--and admitting what she did that night--Cara's not sure how. But a second chance awaits, if she can only find the strength within herself.
"A poignant exploration of grief, guilt, and forgiveness." --Sophie Kinsella, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Audrey and the Shopaholic series
"Transportive and redemptive, this is a gentle story about the universality of grief, the beauty of self-forgiveness, and how new friendship can help heal old wounds."--Ashley Woodfolk, author of The Beauty That Remains and When You Were Everything
"Atmospheric....this is a delicious read."-Irish Times
"A good choice for readers who enjoyed Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss and Gayle Forman's If I Stay."--SLJ
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
On her way home from a New Year's Eve party, British-American Cara's life is shattered when the vehicle she is driving is hit by a truck and her best friend, Georgina, is killed. Wracked with guilt and unable to function, Cara reluctantly follows her mother's suggestion to leave California and spend her senior year abroad. Cara knows that she will never meet her mother's expectation that she return to her old self; if she goes somewhere new, maybe she can hide her past. With compassion and sensitivity, first-time author De Pass traces the psychological changes Cara undergoes as she attends an isolated boarding school in Switzerland and becomes close with three students from different countries, all of whom have had to deal with traumas of their own. With their help, Cara finds the courage to confront the one horrible truth about the accident she has never told anyone. Enhanced by its evocative setting, a warm refuge surrounded by mountains, De Pass's novel clearly depicts who Cara was previously, who she is now, and how the revelation of her secret affects her relationship with others. Her multiple layers of emotional pain and fear will affect readers deeply. Ages 12 up.
