The Lucky Ones
(Sprache: Englisch)
For fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, This Is How It Ends, and All the Bright Places, comes a gripping novel about life after. How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all?
May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like...
May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like...
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For fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, This Is How It Ends, and All the Bright Places, comes a gripping novel about life after. How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all?May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like one. She feels angry. And lost. And alone. Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn't know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. No one gets what she went through--no one saw and heard what she did. No one can possibly understand how it feels to be her.
Zach lost his old life when his mother decided to defend the shooter. His girlfriend dumped him, his friends bailed, and now he spends his time hanging out with his little sister...and the one faithful friend who stuck around. His best friend is needy and demanding, but he won't let Zach disappear into himself. Which is how Zach ends up at band practice that night. The same night May goes with her best friend to audition for a new band.
Which is how May meets Zach. And how Zach meets May. And how both might figure out that surviving could be an option after all.
A Chicago Public Library Systems selection for Best Teen Fiction
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020
A Texas Library Association 2021 Reading List selection
"A harrowing and beautifully told story about how far the tentacles of tragedy can reach. May's story of grief, survival, and reckoning is tenderly and honestly explored. A simply stunning debut." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces
"A must-read for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and This Is How It Ends."--Paste Magazine
"Gripping, emotional, suspenseful, and ultimately hopeful" --Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying
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Chapter OneMay
I bolt across the lawn, squinting through the inky black. The streetlamp behind me casts a pool of light, but it s weak. Clouds block the moon.
As I run, I wipe my hand across my forehead, and it comes back wet. It s hot as shit out here, even though it s January in Los Angeles and that s supposed to mean something. It s been like this for weeks--hot and still. Earthquake weather, Lucy s grandmother claims, even though I keep telling her it s been scientifically proven that you can t predict an earthquake.
I m alone; Lucy ditched me after our late-night dinner. I guess I can t blame her for going home; it s after midnight and we have school in the morning--my first day at this new school since I was kicked out of the old one almost ten months ago. I probably should have gone home too, but I couldn t without coming here first. It s not like I sleep anymore, anyway.
Lucy would have a fit if she knew where I went after she left.
Ever since we figured out that Michelle Teller installed motion-sensitive lights on the side of the garage, Lucy s been so much more cautious--all Dude, May, I love you but we need to be careful, messing with that shit--which I get for her--I get it, I do--but for me, it s different. For me, it s worth it. She disagrees, but as much as I love Lucy and as much as I tell her about what s running through this fucked-up head of mine, I don t tell her everything.
Like, tonight. When I called her, late, and asked her to meet me at the diner for some food--I didn t tell her why.
This afternoon I checked the mail for the first time all weekend and there was another one, waiting for me in the box.
When I saw it, my insides froze. I grabbed it, went upstairs, stuffed it under my clothes way in the back of my closet, and then
... mehr
went into the bathroom and threw up. After, I lay down on my bed, head pounding. But from across the room I could feel the thump of its presence, like a fucking telltale heart. There are so many now, hidden around my room, haunting me at night from my desk drawer, from my closet, from every nook and cranny in my bedroom where I shove them. If I actually fall and stay asleep, like a normal human being, they creep into my dreams, turning them into nightmares.
I couldn t stay still. I jumped out of bed and started cleaning my room but couldn t concentrate enough to do much more than pace back and forth across the cluttered carpet.
Hence the call to Lucy. Hence not going home when she did. I need this--it s the only thing that will smooth the sharp memory of those letters.
I finally reach the garage door, but as soon as I get to it an image pops into my head, distracting me, of my twin brother Jordan s body sprawled on the jazz band room floor, thick, bright crimson pouring out of him, soaking into the ratty gray carpet. I m thrown for a moment, before I take that image and shove it down out of my head, down into the depth of my belly, and I step too close to the side of the house. I know not to; over the past months, I ve gotten to be an expert on the layout of the Tellers driveway and the system of lights they hooked up, but as usual I screw things up.
A spotlight blasts on, and for a split second I m like an animal caught in headlights, one of the idiotic ones that always get mowed down. I freeze.
After a few long seconds, I finally get it through my dumb head that standing here in the middle of a bright circle of light is not a great idea, and I force myself to move. I dart around the corner into the blackness of the backyard and press my body up against the stu
I couldn t stay still. I jumped out of bed and started cleaning my room but couldn t concentrate enough to do much more than pace back and forth across the cluttered carpet.
Hence the call to Lucy. Hence not going home when she did. I need this--it s the only thing that will smooth the sharp memory of those letters.
I finally reach the garage door, but as soon as I get to it an image pops into my head, distracting me, of my twin brother Jordan s body sprawled on the jazz band room floor, thick, bright crimson pouring out of him, soaking into the ratty gray carpet. I m thrown for a moment, before I take that image and shove it down out of my head, down into the depth of my belly, and I step too close to the side of the house. I know not to; over the past months, I ve gotten to be an expert on the layout of the Tellers driveway and the system of lights they hooked up, but as usual I screw things up.
A spotlight blasts on, and for a split second I m like an animal caught in headlights, one of the idiotic ones that always get mowed down. I freeze.
After a few long seconds, I finally get it through my dumb head that standing here in the middle of a bright circle of light is not a great idea, and I force myself to move. I dart around the corner into the blackness of the backyard and press my body up against the stu
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Autoren-Porträt von Liz Lawson
Liz Lawson works in the entertainment industry as a music supervisor for film and TV. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. The Lucky Ones is her first novel. To learn more about Liz and her novel, go to lizlawsonauthor.com or follow @lzlwsn on Twitter and Instagram.
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- Autor: Liz Lawson
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 14 Jahre
- 2021, 352 Seiten, Masse: 14,1 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Ember
- ISBN-10: 0593118529
- ISBN-13: 9780593118528
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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A must-read for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and This Is How It Ends. Paste Magazine Wildly ambitious and wholly empathetic, devastatingly raw, and impossibly gentle; a must-read in this moment. Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"This heartbreaking and touching story of grief and loss, as well as hope and forgiveness, will resonate with readers who deal with this fear and reality on a daily basis. School Library Journal
"[An] intense, affecting debut" Publishers Weekly
"Tragically relevant and with a nuanced perspective on grief and being a survivor....The Lucky Ones portrays grief as multifaceted and complicated." Booklist
A gripping, emotional, suspenseful, and ultimately hopeful story about loss, survivor s guilt, and learning to find love and trust again. Put The Lucky Ones on your TBR list you do NOT want to miss it! Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying
A harrowing and beautifully told story about how far the tentacles of tragedy can reach. May s story of grief, survival, and reckoning is tenderly and honestly explored. A simply stunning debut. Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces
Liz Lawson writes as a listener first, allowing her characters to fill the pages of The Lucky Ones with their vibrant, unique voices as they take up the space they (and Lawson) demand for themselves, for their humanity, for their lives. Will Walton, author of I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
"Exploding with raw anger, and underneath it all, a deep, driving ache, this debut is a reminder to hug those we love, and not take a single second we have with them for granted. Highly, highly recommend." Kelly Coon, author of Gravemaidens
"Goodness. This story made me ugly cry next to strangers on an airplane. The Lucky Ones is so beautiful and important.
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As a teacher, mother, author, and human being, I say thank you to Liz Lawson for tackling a horrible reality in such a heartfelt and lovely way." Erin Hahn, author of You'd Be Mine and More Than Maybe
"The Lucky Ones takes a subject that has become tragically familiar and manages to tell the untold story. Liz Lawson deftly explores grief and trauma, but she always threads it through with hope and love. This is a beautiful and necessary book." Lauren Morrill, author of Better Than the Best Plan
"The Lucky Ones takes a subject that has become tragically familiar and manages to tell the untold story. Liz Lawson deftly explores grief and trauma, but she always threads it through with hope and love. This is a beautiful and necessary book." Lauren Morrill, author of Better Than the Best Plan
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