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The Possibility of Fireflies
Dominique Paul
Simon and Schuster
October 2006
On Sale: October 3, 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 1416913106
EAN: 9781416913108
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Young Adult
It's
1987 and fourteen-year-old Ellie Roma doesn't have much of a
family.
She lives with her mother, who has taken a break from
parenting; and
her older sister, Gwen, who is on her way to becoming a juvenile
delinquent. Her father left them to start a new
life. So
Ellie spends a lot of time alone, especially at night, when
all she has
to keep her company are the fireflies that flicker in the
summer air.
Then one day a mysterious stranger enters her dark world. He
is Leo,
twenty-one, who is on his way to Hollywood to become a rock
star. Ellie
and Leo connect instantly, and Ellie hopes Leo will be the
one to
rescue her from her unhappy life. But instead, Leo teaches
Ellie that
no one can save you. You have to go after what you want. So
one night
-- one terrible, frightening, thrilling night -- that's
exactly what
Ellie decides to do. With a fresh perspective,
first-time novelist Dominique Paul deftly weaves a family
drama about
chaos and dysfunction, with a young girl's journey of
triumph. Full of
humor and sorrow, heartbreak and hope, The Possibility of
Fireflies is really a story that we all have to tell:
the story of the summer we grew up.
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