A Year and a Day

Leslie Pietrzyk

Original title: A year and a day

first published 2004 William Morrow, 2004 351 pages

Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unexceptional. But in the world that Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through the kaleidoscope of loss, stained by the fact that Alice's mother, without warning, note, or apology, deliberately p...

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A Year and a Day ebook · 2008 · HarperCollins · 9780061724268
A Year and a Day paperback · 2005 · Harper Perennial · 368 pages · 9780060554668
A year and a day edition · 2004 · William Morrow · 351 pages

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