Description
National Book Award–winning author Robin Benway returns with an ambitious I’ll Give You the Sun meets Every Day story of love, loss, and sisterhood told in a reverse chronological narrative that will claim a permanent home in your heart.
It’s been a year—a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones—holidays, birthdays, everything without her.
Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina’s boyfriend, East.
East, who once promised Nina he’d watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won’t give Leo the one thing she wants—the one thing she needs. He won’t tell her anything about the accident. He won’t talk about that night at all.
As the days tumble one into the next, Leo’s story comes together while her world falls apart. The only constant is the one person who can help her bear the enormous weight of her love for Nina—and East might be carrying too heavy a load of his own.
Robin Benway’s signature exploration of love, family, and finding yourself is on display in her most ambitious story yet.
Thora Casper @hand.henry_505
August 11, 2022
4
Leo lost her sister Nina exactly one year ago. The story opens on the one year anniversary of Nina's death and then works it's way backwards to the night of the accident, with each chapter getting closer and closer to the night when something happened and Nina died. Intriguing, since you understand pretty quickly that Nina died in an accident, but each chapter reveals more details. This is a story about love, loss, and grief and how the main character navigates her way through the pain of losing her sister and healing from the devastating loss. Having lost my own sister just a few years ago, parts of this one were tough to read. Grief has many stages and they are all accurately portrayed here.