A Map of the Known World
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780545229791 (0545229790)
Publish date: November 1st 2009
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
The implosion of a family after a death, and how it starts to come back together. There, the short summary. It doesn't really do justice to the book, though. Cora's troubled older brother Nate dies in a car crash, and her world stops. Her father withdraws completely. Her mother becomes a nightmare h...
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The dead-brother-leaves-behind-little-sister-who-falls-in-love-with-the-guy-(who happens to be the only one that’s ever understood him)-that’s-"responsible"-for-said-brother's-death reminds me of the Korean drama "Snow Queen" Minus the terminal illness. So, it was a much softer version. I was exp...
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