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A Heart in a Body in the World
Deb Caletti
Simon Pulse
September 2018
On Sale: September 18, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 1481415204
EAN: 9781481415200
Kindle: B075RQBDNN
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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.
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