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Traduction
Comment acceptez-vous une perte irremplaçable? A ses débuts poignants, un garçon de seize ans doit apprendre à faire face à un chaos sous-jacent - ou être emporté par ce chagrin.
Otis et Meg étaient inséparables jusqu’à ce que sa famille s’éloigne brusquement après le terrible accident qui a causé la mort du petit frère d’Otis et qui a changé leur famille à tout jamais. Depuis, trois ans de silence radio, pendant lesquels Otis est devenu le protégé improbable et l'ami de Dara, 18 ans, sergent de forage, qui a la ferme intention de transformer Otis en nageur olympique, ce qu'elle ne peut plus être. Mais quand Otis apprend que Meg retourne en ville, il doit faire face à des vérités difficiles sur la fille qu’il n’a jamais oubliée et sur le frère qu’il n’a jamais cessé de pleurer. Comme il est clairement évident que Meg et lui ne sont pas les mêmes personnes, Otis doit décider quoi garder et quoi laisser. Terriblement touchant, ce premier roman capture toute la confusion, le chagrin et le fragile espoir de trois adolescents qui luttent pour accepter de profondes absences dans leur vie.
Description en VO
How do you move on from an irreplaceable loss? In a poignant debut, a sixteen-year-old boy must learn to swim against an undercurrent of grief—or be swept away by it.
Otis and Meg were inseparable until her family abruptly moved away after the terrible accident that left Otis’s little brother dead and both of their families changed forever. Since then, it’s been three years of radio silence, during which time Otis has become the unlikely protégé of eighteen-year-old Dara—part drill sergeant, part friend—who’s hell-bent on transforming Otis into the Olympic swimmer she can no longer be. But when Otis learns that Meg is coming back to town, he must face some difficult truths about the girl he’s never forgotten and the brother he’s never stopped grieving. As it becomes achingly clear that he and Meg are not the same people they were, Otis must decide what to hold on to and what to leave behind. Quietly affecting, this compulsively readable debut novel captures all the confusion, heartbreak, and fragile hope of three teens struggling to accept profound absences in their lives.
Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts up walls so no one can see her true self: the girl who was abandoned as an infant, whose adoptive mother has cancer, and whose disabled brother is being sent away to live in a facility. When an unexpected encounter results in the girls’ exchanging phone numbers, they forge a connection through text messages that expands into a private universe they call Starworld. In Starworld, they find hilarious adventures, kindness and understanding, and the magic of being seen for who they really are. But when Sam’s feelings for Zoe turn into something more, will the universe they’ve built survive the inevitable explosion?
