Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Audio)
ISBN:
9780307917461 (0307917460)
Publish date: July 8th 2014
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the first book I have read by Chris Bohjalian. It was not what I expected at all. This is a dark story with some pretty intense themes, but written very well. I really enjoyed the world building and the Emily Dickinson poetry that was painted into the writing. It has b...
Emily Shepard is a troubled young girl who is forced to face enormous, catastrophic changes in her life. She lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. She is a bright teenager in her junior year at a good private school. She does not perform to her potential although she is quite capable; she is no...
I don't know why I began my story with the igloo. The igloo was really the beginning of the end-or, maybe, the end of the beginning. I am used to reading, and really enjoying, historical fiction from Chris Bohjalian. This book is vastly different from what I've read from him but it was just as enjo...
3.5 Stars, rounded to 3A resident of the Northwest Kingdom located in Vermont, Emily Shepherd, like everyone else there is forced to flee when a nuclear reactor melts down. The only difference is that her father is the one believed to be at fault, possibly drunk, and he and Emily's mother who also w...
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian is the dark and sad story of Emily Shepard, a teenager, running from the disaster at a nuclear power plant. Emily's character is flawed and her decisions not always likable. The story told through her voice comes through as lost and sad as she ...
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