The Impossible Knife of Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson
Product details
Age Range: 12 and up?
Grade Level: 7 - 9
Lexile Measure: HL720L
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Speak; Reprint edition (June 2, 2015)
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Teens? History & Historical Fiction
The Impossible Knife of Memory
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Luke Daniels
Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
Publisher's Summary
Despite my best intentions, I was beginning to understand how my dad saw the world. The shadows haunting every living thing. The secrets inside the lies wrapped in bullshit. Even Gracie’s box of pills was beginning to make sense.
For the past five years, Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, trying to outrun the memories that haunt them both. They moved back to Andy’s hometown to try a “normal” life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives. Hayley watches, helpless, as her father turns to drugs and alcohol to silence his demons. And then her own past creeps up, and everything falls apart.
How do you keep your father alive when death is stalking him? What are you supposed to do when your parent stops acting like an adult? And what happens if a sweet guy who can make you laugh barges his way into your world and for the first time, you find yourself thinking about the future?
Timely, compelling, surprising — this is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest.
