A Heart in the Body in the World / Deb Caletti.
Each step on Annabelle's 2,700 mile cross-country run brings her closer to facing a trauma from her past in National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti's novel about the heart, all the ways it breaks, and its journey to healing. Because sometimes against our will, against all odds, we go forward.Then...Annabelle's life wasn't perfect, but it was full-full of friends, family, love. And a boy...whose attention Annabelle found flattering and unsettling all at once.Until that attention intensified.Now...Annabelle is running. Running from the pain and the tragedy from the past year. With only Grandpa Ed and the journal she fills with words she can't speak out loud, Annabelle runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, and toward a destination she doesn't understand but is determined to reach. With every beat of her heart, every stride of her feet, Annabelle steps closer to healing-and the strength she discovers within herself to let love and hope back into her life.Annabelle's journey is the ultimate testament to the human heart, and how it goes on after being broken.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781481415200
- ISBN: 1481415204
- Physical Description: 355 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon Pulse, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Award Winner |
Target Audience Note: | 14+ years HL680L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.6 12 501474. |
Awards Note: | Amelia Bloomer Book List, 2019 Printz Honor 2019 |
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Genre: | Teen fiction. |
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A Heart in a Body in the World
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Summary
A Heart in a Body in the World
When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run? So that's what Annabelle does--she runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. She's not ready to think about the why yet, just the how --muscles burning, heart pumping, feet pounding the earth. But no matter how hard she tries, she can't outrun the tragedy from the past year, or the person-- T he Taker --that haunts her. Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and two friends (her self-appointed publicity team), Annabelle becomes a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to the trauma from her past. Her cross-country run gains media attention and she is cheered on as she crosses state borders, and is even thrown a block party and given gifts. The support would be nice, if Annabelle could escape the guilt and the shame from what happened back home. They say it isn't her fault, but she can't feel the truth of that. Through welcome and unwelcome distractions, she just keeps running, to the destination that awaits her. There, she'll finally face what lies behind her--the miles and love and loss...and what is to come. "This is one for the ages." --Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay "A book everyone should read right now." -- The New York Times Book Review "A vital and heartbreaking story that brings together the #MeToo movement, the effects of gun violence, and the struggle of building oneself up again after crisis." -- Elle "Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful." -- BookPage