She lives with her family in Seattle.California Young Reader Medal Finalist 2005/2006 Her books for adults include He's Gone and her latest release, The Secrets She Keeps. Her many books for young adults include Stay The Nature of Jade and Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, winner of the Washington State Book Award and the PNBA Best Book Award, and a finalist for the PEN USA Award. There, she'll finally face what lies behind her-the miles and love and loss.and what is to come.ĭeb Caletti is an award-winning author and National Book Award finalist. Through welcome and unwelcome distractions, she just keeps running, to the destination that awaits her. They say it isn't her fault, but she can't feel the truth of that. The support would be nice, if Annabelle could escape the guilt and the shame from what happened back home. Her cross-country run gains media attention and she is cheered on as she crosses state borders, and is even thrown a block party and given gifts. But no matter how hard she tries, she can't outrun the tragedy from the past year, or the person-The Taker-that haunts her.įollowed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and two friends (her self-appointed publicity team), Annabelle becomes a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to the trauma from her past. She's not ready to think about the why yet, just the how-muscles burning, heart pumping, feet pounding the earth. When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run? So that's what Annabelle does-she runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. "This is one for the ages." -Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay Each step on Annabelle's 2,700 mile cross-country run brings her closer to facing a trauma from her past in National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti's novel about the heart, all the ways it breaks, and its journey to healing.īecause sometimes against our will, against all odds, we go forward.
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