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More copies of this ISBN:Love You Hate You Miss Youby Elizabeth Scott
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Get this, I'm supposed to be starting a journal about my journey. Please. I can see it now: Dear Diary, As I'm set adrift on this crazy sea called life . . . I don't think so. It's been seventy-five days. Amy's sick of her parents suddenly taking an interest in her. And she's really sick of people asking her about Julia. Julia's gone now, and she doesn't want to talk about it. They wouldn't get it, anyway. They wouldn't understand what it feels like to have your best friend ripped away from you. They wouldn't understand what it feels like to know it's your fault. Amy's shrink thinks it would help to start a diary. Instead, Amy starts writing letters to Julia. But as she writes letter after letter, she begins to realize that the past wasn't as perfect as she thought it was--and the present deserves a chance too. Review:"Amy used to sleep around, party hard and have a wild time with her best friend Julia — until Julia dies in a car accident. Readers meet 16-year-old Amy fresh out of rehab — a recovering alcoholic who is also trying to recover her will to live. Amy feels lost without Julia: she has no real friends and believes her parents not only don't know her but don't want to. The events leading up to Julia's death — which give Amy the impression that she killed her — unfold during Amy's post-rehab sessions with her therapist and her parents. Amy's letters to Julia sit between straight narrative chapters, and throughout Amy marks time by counting the days since Julia's death. The teenager's initial, severe alienation may account for the flat affect in the first half of the story, though as Amy reawakens to the possibility of moving on and life becoming meaningful again, Scott's (Living Dead Girl) prose becomes layered with emotion, some of it achingly sad. Amy's story stays mainly in guilt, despair and anger throughout, but shifts slightly toward hope as Amy moves through her grief. Ages 12 — up. (June)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:With sarcastic humor, cutting insight, and beautiful prose, Scott delivers a searing story of a teenage girl who thinks she may have killed her best friend, and her struggle to put the pieces of her life back together.
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