Without Tess
Tess and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a wolf in the middle of the night. But when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks deeper and deeper into her...
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Tess and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a wolf in the middle of the night. But when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks deeper and deeper into her delusions, she decides that she can’t live in the real world any longer and leaves Lizzie and her family forever. Now, years later, Lizzie is in high school and struggling to understand what happened to her sister. With the help of a school psychologist and Tess’s battered journal, Lizzie searches for a way to finally let Tess go.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374361747 (0374361746)
Publish date: October 11th 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Realistic Fiction,
Health,
Family,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Death,
Young Adult Contemporary
Originally published at my blog Chasing Empty PavementsThe blurb of this book sounded so interesting and different from what I've read that I was excited to give it a try. It did not disappoint! This was an extremely insightful look at childhood mental illness and it was sad yet hopeful all at once....
Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog!Without Tess is a whirlwind of a novel - running the gamut from emotional to sweet to disturbing, all easily within a few pages. It's a forthright and honest look at youth, childhood, grief and mental illness without shying away from darker moments or theme...
I read through a third of the book and I could not finish it. The theme was a little dark and depressing for me at this time. I have recently read too many depressing stories so this just did not click with me. I enjoyed the writing and thought, from what I had read, the story flowed. Hopefully, I'...
WITHOUT TESS isn’t an easy story and only got sadder as it progressed, yet I’d still recommend it to someone looking for something quietly emotional but definitely different. There are a lot of hard emotions in this one and I think those emotions were compounded by how young Tess was (Liz as well) a...
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