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June 2011
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Featuring: Sayre Bellavia
277 pages ISBN: 1439193967 EAN: 9781439193969 Trade Size
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Young Adult Contemporary
>Lauded by critics and authors for her heartbreakingly real heroines, Laura Wiess brings readers another devastating tale of betrayal and redemption rich with the raw emotion that made Such a Pretty Girl a classic. How can you make someone love you when they wonβt? And what if that person happens to be your mother? Sayre Bellavia grew up knowing she was a mistake: unplanned and unwanted. At five months shy of eighteen, sheβs become an expert in loneliness, heartache, and neglect. Her whole life sheβs been cursed, used, and left behind. Swallowed a thousand tears and ignored a thousand deliberate cruelties. Sayreβs stuck by her mother through hell, tried to help her, be near her, be important to her even as her mother slipped away into a violent haze of addiction, destroying the only chance Sayre ever had for a real family. Now her mother is lying in a hospital bed, near death, ravaged by her own destructive behavior. And as Sayre fights her way to her motherβs bedside, she is terrified but determined to get the answer to a question no one should ever have to ask: Did my mother ever really love me? And what will Sayre do if the answer is yes?
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