A Map of the Known World
From critically beloved author Lisa Ann Sandell comes this poignant, unputdownable story of a teen girl who learns to shake off her brother's shadow by becoming an artist.Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever since her reckless older brother, Nate, died in a car crash, Cora has felt suffocated by...
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From critically beloved author Lisa Ann Sandell comes this poignant, unputdownable story of a teen girl who learns to shake off her brother's shadow by becoming an artist.Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever since her reckless older brother, Nate, died in a car crash, Cora has felt suffocated by her small town and high school. She seeks solace in drawing beautiful maps, envisioning herself in exotic locales. When Cora begins to fall for Damian, the handsome, brooding boy who was in the car with Nate the night he died, she uncovers her brother's secret artistic life and realizes she had more in common with him than she ever imagined. With stunning lyricism, Sandell weaves a tale of one girl's journey through the redemptive powers of art, friendship, and love.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545069700 (054506970X)
Publish date: April 15th 2009
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pages no: 272
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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