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Also by Deb Caletti:

True Life in Uncanny Valley, March 2025
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One Great Lie, June 2021
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Girl, Unframed, June 2021
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A Heart in a Body in the World, September 2018
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He's Gone, June 2013
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Love Is All You Need, January 2013
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A HEART IN A BODY IN THE WORLD
By: Deb Caletti

Simon Pulse
September 2018
On Sale: September 18, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 1481415204
EAN: 9781481415200
Kindle: B075RQBDNN
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult

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.

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—The 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.