The Impossible Knife of Memory
For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the...
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For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780147510723 (0147510724)
ASIN: 147510724
Publisher: Speak
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
War,
Family,
Contemporary,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
High School,
Young Adult Contemporary
This book had a strong start. Teenage girl with a dysfunctional family, father suffering from severe PTSD from the war in Iraq, constantly having to move from place to place so that part of her life is wrecked, and her experiences at school as a result. Plus, the author is Laurie Halse Anderson, so ...
Laurie Halse Anderson is one of my favorite YA writers. I love Speak, and Wintergirls, and Twisted, but I struggled with this book.Seventeen-year-old Hayley has a lot to deal with: her first year at a traditional high school, her first boyfriend, an alcoholic/suicidal father, and a stepmother who sh...
A little more uneven than I expected. Would have been five stars, except I found the chapters of the dad's traumatic experiences distracting from rather than deepening the reading experience. It's otherwise so much Hayley's book, not her dad's, that they felt out of place.
Hayley has been raised by a pack of wolves. Oh wait! That's another story. The Impossible Knife of Memory is about a girl who is raised by a father who is out of his mind drunk or drugged a lot of the time. They have spent years on the road because he is a long-haul truck driver. So she hasn't been ...
Talk about disappointing. I normally love Laurie Halse Anderson and the fact that she writes about realistic, gripping, and grief stricken stories about teenagers. Impossible Knife of Memory is just that. But for some reason I couldn't get into the characters as much as Speak, Twisted, and Catalyst....
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