The memory of things
By: Gae Polisner
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781250095527
Subjects: Fiction; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Friendship; Memory
Description: On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, a NYC detective likely on his way to the disaster, Kyle makes the split-second decision to bring the girl home. What follows is their story, told in alternating points of view, as Kyle tries to unravel the mystery of the girl so he can return her to her family. But what if the girl has forgotten everything, even her own name? And what if the more Kyle gets to know her, the less he wants her to go home?
Notes: 789Y Childrens Plus, Inc.