The End or Something Like That
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
An achingly raw and surprisingly funny novel about coping with loss.
“The End or Something Like That breaks your heart and mends it back together with hope and humor.”—Ally Condie, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Matched trilogy
“You will truly love this book.”—Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures series
“A hilarious and awesomely weird ode to friendship and youth—with the kind of stellar prose that won’t let you look away.”—John Corey Whaley, Printz Award–winning author of Where Things Come Back
When a lifetime isn’t long enough . . .
Emmy would like to think that friendship can last forever. But with Kim’s chronic heart condition, Emmy knows they’re running out of time. So the girls make up a plan to connect once Kim crosses over to the other side. The problem is, now that Kim is gone, Emmy can’t seem to bridge the gap between real life and the afterlife. Which makes her wonder if what happened right before Kim died may have changed everything.
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"When your best friend dies, things happen. You lie under your bed. You plan spiritual visitations. You watch a lot of TV. You eat turkey burgers." Writing in clipped, emotionally deadened prose that carries the weight of grief, Ellis (Everything Is Fine) catalogues 15-year-old Emmy's struggle with her friend's sudden death. Alternating chapters take readers between the present, with the one-year anniversary of Kim's death approaching, and flashbacks to the preceding months. Following Kim's collapse in the cafeteria, Emmy is mired in her pain, but when she starts seeing and interacting with her newly deceased earth science teacher, Emmy dares to hope a "visitation" from Kim might be possible. A consult with Ted Farnsworth, a dubious medium whose seminar Emmy and Kim had attended, builds confidence in the likelihood of it happening. The Las Vegas setting powerfully contrasts the absurdity of life against the separation of death, and several truly uncomfortable scenes involving Emmy's classmates lays bare just how ill-equipped many people are to handle death. A hard-hitting story about remembering the dead while not forgetting the living. Ages 12 up.
