Ketchup Clouds
Dear Mr. S. Harris, Ignore the blob of red in the top left corner. It's jam, not blood, though I don't think I need to tell you the difference. It wasn't your wife's jam the police found on your shoe. . . .Zoe has an unconventional pen pal-Mr. Stuart Harris, a Texas Death Row inmate and convicted...
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Dear Mr. S. Harris, Ignore the blob of red in the top left corner. It's jam, not blood, though I don't think I need to tell you the difference. It wasn't your wife's jam the police found on your shoe. . . .Zoe has an unconventional pen pal-Mr. Stuart Harris, a Texas Death Row inmate and convicted murderer. But then again, Zoe has an unconventional story to tell. A story about how she fell for two brothers, betrayed one of them, and killed the other. Hidden away in her backyard shed in the middle of the night with a jam sandwich in one hand and a pen in the other, Zoe gives a voice to her heart and her fears after months of silence. Mr. Harris may never respond to Zoe's letters, but at least somebody will know her story-somebody who knows what it's like to kill a person you love. Only through her unusual confession can Zoe hope to atone for her mistakes that have torn lives apart, and work to put her own life back together again.Rising literary star Annabel Pitcher pens a captivating second novel, rich with her distinctive balance between humor and heart. Annabel explores the themes of first love, guilt, and grief, introducing a character with a witty voice and true emotional resonance.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316246767 (031624676X)
ASIN: 031624676X
Publish date: November 12th 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 261
Edition language: English
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I randomly picked up this book at the thrift store and I'm so glad I did. I really enjoyed how to story was told through a series of one sided letters and I thought the characters were great. I don't think there was one character that I truly disliked. It was a great book, I have another one by this...
Ketchup Clouds has an awesome premise: a teenage girl murders one boy and betrays another. And then writes about it to a death-row inmate. My interest was through the roof at once. But...well...okay, the book was good in places. It was fast-paced. The protagonist's voice was entertaining...perky. Th...
When I was a kid I was always writing these dumb little stories in my Hello Kitty notebook and I used to doodle all these stupid cartoon strips and I wished I could be a writer or an artist. My brother tore my dream down and stomped all over it so no, I'm not a writer or an artist but there's still ...
Zoe sits in her shed at night writing letters to a convicted murderer to tell him, someone who will understand, how she came to kill one of two boys she had feelings for. Her actions are unknown to the people in her life, and the boy’s mother is constantly asking her to visit her or her son’s grave....