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Also by Maira Kalman:

My Favorite Things, November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Why We Broke Up, January 2012
Hardcover
Food Rules, November 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
And The Pursuit Of Happiness, October 2010
Hardcover
The Principles of Uncertainty, October 2007
Hardcover
The Elements of Style Illustrated, October 2005
Hardcover (reprint)
Fireboat, August 2005
Paperback

Also by Daniel Handler:

Bottle Grove, March 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
We Are Pirates, February 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Why We Broke Up, January 2012
Hardcover

WHY WE BROKE UP
By: Maira Kalman, Daniel Handler

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
January 2012
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Featuring: Min Green; Ed Slaterton
368 pages
ISBN: 0316127256
EAN: 9780316127257
Hardcover
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Fiction

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened.

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.