A orillas de un mismo recuerdo/ The Impossible Knife of Memory (Paperback)

from DeweyEver

Returning to her childhood hometown dredges up pieces of memories that Hayley Kincain has tried to keep buried. Her single dad Andy is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from war and refuses all help. She navigates her new school with old friend Gracie and becomes enamore...

from amandacb

Anderson has once again completed a masterpiece. I will admit -- the book jacket description does this book no favors. I put off reading this (despite Wintergirls being a favorite) because the description sounded ridiculously unappealing. However, in a literature rut, I plucked it off the shelf a...

from ewyatt

Hailey has been living a nomadic life with her dad, a decorated Army vet who came home damaged in ways far beyond the scars on his face. She's spent her life trying to care for him and trying to block out memories of her past. Now they've settled in her grandmother's house, a home she once had wh...

from aarchamb

I really LOVE Anderson's works, but this book left me feeling ho-hum. I felt she didn't really grasp and expose PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) in a true light. In other books, I felt she really got down to the nitty-gritty of the disorder and exposed it for all the demons/gods that it poss...

from mmoj

This is the story of Hayley, a high school student whose mother died when she was a little girl and whose father was in the service and was discharged because of injuries he sustained while in service. Because of her father's issues Haley has had an unconventional education. Now she's trying to f...