Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog. It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.
This week's anticipated book:
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: July 8, 2014
From Goodreads: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless girl living in an igloo made
of garbage bags in Burlington. Nearly a year ago, a power plant in the
Northeast Kingdom of Vermont had a meltdown, and both of Emily's parents
were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and
the meltdown may have been his fault—was he drunk when it happened?
Thousands of people are forced to leave their homes in the Kingdom;
rivers and forests are destroyed; and Emily feels certain that as the
daughter of the most hated man in America, she is in danger. So instead
of following the social workers and her classmates after the meltdown,
Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by
stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's house, inventing a
new identity for herself, and befriending a young homeless kid named
Cameron. But Emily can't outrun her past, can't escape her grief, can't
hide forever-and so she comes up with the only plan that she can.
Which book are you waiting for?
Enjoy life with books . . .
Catherine
Waiting on Wednesday: New Chris Bohjalian Novel was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be published without attribution.
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