Sorry for Your Loss

From Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes a comitragic YA novel that may enchantment to followers of Jandy Nelson and Jeff Zentner.

Because the youngest of eight, painfully common Pup Flanagan is used to flying underneath the radar. He’s barely passing his lessons. He lets his longtime crush stroll throughout him. And he’s in no hurry to determine on a university path.

The one one who ever made him assume he may very well be extra was his older brother Patrick. However that was earlier than Patrick died all of the sudden, leaving Pup with a household who gained’t discuss it and acquaintances who simply preserve saying, “sorry to your loss.”

When Pup excels at a pictures project he thought he’d bomb, issues begin to come into focus. His dream lady reveals her true colours. An sudden buddy exposes Pup to a complete new world, proper underneath his nostril.

And the {photograph} that was supposed to point out Pup a method out of his grief finally reveals another person who remains to be caught in their very own. Somebody with a secret remorse Pup by no means may have imagined.

Winner of the 2020-2020 North Star YA Award

Named to YALSA’s Greatest Fiction for Younger Adults listing