A Year to the Day
- Subject
- Romance - Contemporary
- Age
- Teen
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Harperteen
- Size
- 14.2 cm × 21.3 cm
- ISBN
- 9780062854438
National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Robin Benway returns with a story of love, loss, and sisterhood reminiscent of I’ll Give You the Sun and Every Day. Told in reverse chronological order, A Year to the Day will claim a permanent home in your heart.
IT’S BEEN A YEAR—A YEAR OF MISSING NINA
Leo can’t remember what happened the night of the accident. All she knows is that she left the party with her older sister, Nina, and Nina’s boyfriend, East. And now Nina is dead, killed by a drunk driver and leaving Leo with a hole inside her that’s impossible to fill.
East, who loved Nina almost as much as Leo did, is the person who seems to most understand how she feels, and the two form a friendship based on their shared grief. But as she struggles to remember what happened, Leo discovers that East remembers every detail of the accident—and he won’t tell her anything about it. In fact, he refuses to talk about that night at all.
As the days tumble one into the next, Leo’s story comes together while her world falls apart. How can she move on if she never knows what really happened that night? And is happiness even possible in a world without Nina?
About the author
Robin BenwayAuthor
Robin Benway is a National Book Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, which have been published in more than 25 countries. Her nonfiction work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Bustle, Elle, and more. Benway attended NYU, is a graduate of UCLA, and lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Marnie Chicken.
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What reviewers said
"A moving exploration of grief in all its unpredictable messiness... An intelligent, compassionate examination of a family enduring a nightmare."
"The backward chronology is a bold and worthy experiment... A Year to the Day is a moving exploration of how the mind both punishes and protects, and a reminder of how fortunate we are to love and be loved, even if only for a short time."
"The intense magic of Benway’s storytelling will be most welcome to those who loved her Far From the Tree."
"Told in reverse chronological order, A Year to the Day will claim a permanent home in your heart."
"Suspense, unanswered questions, and raw emotion blend together in an honest examination of one family’s varying symptoms and stages of grief."
"An emotional gut punch. Give this to empathetic readers who are ready for an emotional journey less about closure than understanding."
