num_pages: 208
description: Philip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naïve, world- worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Tess begins her letter to Zoe as a means of figuring out her own life, her place in the world, but the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours.
language: English
title: Dear Zoe
titlecomplete: Dear Zoe
characters: Tess DeNunzio
genres: Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Adult, Teen, Adaptations, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Family
ratings_count: 1851
publisher: Plume