As a high school senior, Shelby is driving with her best friend Helene one snowy February night on Long Island when her car goes out of control, leaving Helene in a coma and Shelby ridden with guilt.
With beautifully crafted prose, Alice Hoffman spins hope from heartbreak in this profoundly moving novel.The sweet-natured latest novel from Hoffman ( The Marriage of Opposites) ambles along pleasantly enough as itįollows the recovery from grief of young Shelby Richmond. ) and her ability to write about the "delicate balance between the everyday world and the extraordinary" (WBUR) make this an unforgettable story.
For anyone who's ever been a hurt teenager, for every mother of a daughter who has lost her way, Here is a character you will fall in love with, so believable and real and endearing, that she captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding yourself at last. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls-including an angel who's been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. Is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion-from dark suffering to true happiness-a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.
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