num_pages: 391
description: For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father Andy have been on the road never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps for the first time Hayley can have a normal life put aside her own painful memories even have a relationship with Finn the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andys PTSD or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling surprising and impossible to put down.
language: English
title: The Impossible Knife of Memory
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers