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Dear Zoe
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Dear Zoe
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Dear Zoe
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Dear Zoe

Written by Philip Beard

Narrated by Cassandra Morris

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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On September 11, 2001, far from either New York or Washington, Tess DeNunzio loses her three year-old sister to a hit-and-run driver. With the eyes of the world elsewhere, Tess's small tragedy is lost in the context of a national one, trapped in what she comes to perceive as an impenetrable silence. Dear Zoe is her attempt to break that silence. Part love letter, part coming of age story, part confession, Tess's story lets us eavesdrop on the intimate conversations that force her to articulate her loss, confront her guilt and, ultimately, confirm the healing power of love. In the most authentic female voice created by any male author since Wally Lamb, Tess DeNunzio will break your heart, then put it back together again.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 24, 2004
ISBN9781598873351
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Dear Zoe
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Philip Beard

Philip Beard is a recovering attorney who still practices law part time in Pittsburgh, where he lives with his wife and three daughters. His first novel, Dear Zoe, was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices Selection, and was chosen as one of the ten best first novels of 2005.  

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Dear Zoe is a book about losing someone you love. In the book Tess DeNuzio is writing to her dead sister telling her about her life and how it was effected. Zoe is a sweet little girl that had everything she ever wanted but it all ruined on that one summer day. As Tess was watching her little sister the phone rang and as she went to get it she had no clue what was going to happen. Zoe raced into the street just as a car came flying down the street. The driver did not see Zoe and she got ran over. That day Tess's life changed forever. After Zoe's death the family starts to fall apart. This book is Tess telling Zoe what she is missing. Tess learns more about herself by writing to Zoe and she learns a lot of life lessons. I loved this book. It makes you empathize for the main character Tess. This book opens your eyes to things that are really important. Anyone can relate to the main character Tess because she lost the one person she loved most. I love Philips way of writing. The way he puts the book in a dairy form is brilliant. I would recommend this book to anyone. Meghan
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This touching tale of grief, written in the form of letters from one sibling to her dead sister, is both raw and genuine. Zoe died as the result of a car accident on 9/11, the tragedy of her death swallowed up by the corporate tragedy of that day. Tess, her older sister (and the author of these letters), witnessed her death and is frequently haunted by bitter memories. Will Tess's family be able to survive the loss of their youngest member or will they self-destruct under the weight of their collective guilt?
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book has all the feels. I giggled and i cried. Fantastic read. Best book i have read in a while.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    i really enjoyed listening to this book but:
    1. it is sad;
    2. it is even more sad when you grew up in pittsburgh and know all the places the author is talking about.

    i listened to this on a cross-country flight and i was looking out the window and crying a lot of the time thinking about going to kennywood as a child and grocery shopping at the giant eagle.

    anyways, i liked the narrator and the style of beard's writing. it's easy to listen to and a super-quick read.(like 5 or so hours on audiobook) i read that this is beard's first book--if he writes more i will definitely read them!

    p.s. thanks cassi:-)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book is about Tess, a soon-to-be 16 year old girl whose little sister, Zoe is hit by a car and killed on September 11th. Tess writes this book (letter) to Zoe as she deals with her grief over her sisters death. It was a very interesting read – Tess’s voice is told by a male author, and it starts out feeling superficial at first, but Tess’s character feels like any young teen girl you might talk to, today. I enjoyed this book a lot, but I feel like it wrapped up very quickly at the end. I guess that is how grief is. You dance around it, telling all these little stories here and there that lead up to it, and once you confront it, you are able to grown and learn how to live with it. An enjoyable book with a very good voice.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    pretty good book about a girl trying to life out her life as a teenager with all the crazy drama involved in trying to find your own independence and yet still being a child. it's interesting that her little sister Zoe serves as her therapist in a way through the form of journaling.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Tess is griefing for her younger sister who was killed by a hit and run driver. Tess tells the story of the effect it had on her and her family.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Written in the form of a letter from a teen-aged girl to her sister who was nit by a car on 9/11. Pretty good mastery of the voice, surprisingly.