Title: What Happened to Goodbye Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile (May 10th, 2011)
Preorder here: Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, The Book DepositorySynopsis: What Happened to Goodbye is about a high school senior who, after her parents’ divorce, has taken up the practice of assuming a new identity in each of the four towns she’s lived in.
Title: The Piper's SonAuthor: Melina Marchette
Publisher: Candlewick Press, 336 Pages (March 8th 2011)
Synopsis: The award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family’s hard-won healing on the other side of trauma.
Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca - but five years have passed, and now it’s Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can’t forget. Shooting for oblivion, he’s hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt, work at the Union pub with his former friends, and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father. Tom’s in no shape to mend what’s broken. But what if no one else is either? An unflinching look at family, forgiveness, and the fierce inner workings of love and friendship, The Piper’s Son redefines what it means to go home again.
I'm really excited for both of these books. First off, I love Sarah Dessen. Anything she writes, I'll read it, so this is a hands down MUST read. As for the Piper's Son - I really enjoyed Saving Francesca and am eager to find out more about the characters from that story.
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I have seen Sarah Dessen around and heard awesome things about her books. I am gonna have to check her out.
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Ooh I used to read a lot of Sarah Dessen before I got too immersed into the paranormal!
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I haven't read Saving Francesca but I think Piper's Son looks really cool and am planning to. Great picks and thanks so much for sharing them with us this week!
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I can't wait until What Happened to Goodbye is released! I love Sarah Dessen's books!
ReplyDeleteI've heard so much Sarah Dessen these days! Can't believe I still haven't picked up one of her books.
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