A Breath Too Late
Square Fish · Paperback · April 27, 2021
For fans of Girl in Pieces, All the Bright Places, and Girl, Interrupted comes a haunting and breathtaking YA contemporary debut novel that packs a powerful message: hope can be found in the darkness. “Achingly poignant . . . a love letter and a life raft to the brokenhearted.” –New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left.
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- Who it’s for
- A haunting, intimate read about memory, love, and the possibility of hope in dark places.
- Genres
- Teen Suicide, Mental Illness for Teens, Depression for Teens
- Published
- Square Fish, April 27, 2021
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For fans of Girl in Pieces, All the Bright Places, and Girl, Interrupted comes a haunting and breathtaking YA contemporary debut novel that packs a powerful message: hope can be found in the darkness. “Achingly poignant . . . a love letter and a life raft to the brokenhearted.” –New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience.
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She is a spectator, swaying between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded prior to her death. But there are gaps in her memory, fractured pieces Ellie is desperate to re-assemble. There's her mother, a songbird who wanted to break free from her oppressive cage. The boy made of brushstrokes and goofy smiles who brought color into a gray world. Her brooding father, with his sad puppy eyes and clenched fists. And Ellie's determined to find out why a piece of her was left behind. Told in epistolary-like style, Rocky Callen's deeply moving A Breath Too Late sensitively examines the beautiful and terrible moments that make up a life and the possibilities that live in even the darkest of places. Perfect for fans of the critically-acclaimed Speak, I’ll Give You the Sun, and If I Stay. "An exquisitely played love song to life, in all of its hurts, wonders, memories, and loves." –Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days "A haunting story, punctuated with brilliant points of hope and light. This is an important story. A necessary story . . . Callen’s writing radiates with passion, honesty and love." —National Book Award finalist and Printz Award–winning author An Na
Fragments of Hope
A haunting, intimate read about memory, love, and the possibility of hope in dark places.
Come here for
- An epistolary-like voice and memories in fragments
- A searching look at the moments that shape a life
Expect
- A sensitive examination of life’s beautiful and terrible moments
- A story that balances emotional ache with points of hope and light
Where it sits
| Teen Suicide | 83% |
|---|---|
| Mental Illness for Teens | 70% |
| Depression for Teens | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Romance
- Abuse & Trauma for Teens
- Teen Suicide
- Authors
- Rocky Callen
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- April 27, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Romance