When Reason Breaks
1st Edition
Published on 10. February 2015
336 pages
978-1-61963-413-8 (ISBN)
Description
13 Reasons Why meets the poetry of Emily Dickinson in this gripping debut novel that's perfect for fans of Sara Zarr or Jennifer Brown.
A Goth girl with an attitude problem, Elizabeth Davis must learn to control her anger before it destroys her. Emily Delgado appears to be a smart, sweet girl with a normal life, but as depression clutches at her, she struggles to feel normal. Both girls are in Ms. Diaz's English class, where they connect to the words of Emily Dickinson. Both are hovering on the edge of an emotional precipice. One of them will attempt suicide. And with Dickinson's poetry as their guide, both girls must conquer their personal demons to ever be happy.
In an emotionally taut novel that is equal parts literary and commercial, with a richly diverse cast of characters, readers will relish in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and be completely swept up in the turmoil of two girls fighting for their lives in Cindy L. Rodriguez's stunning debut.
A Goth girl with an attitude problem, Elizabeth Davis must learn to control her anger before it destroys her. Emily Delgado appears to be a smart, sweet girl with a normal life, but as depression clutches at her, she struggles to feel normal. Both girls are in Ms. Diaz's English class, where they connect to the words of Emily Dickinson. Both are hovering on the edge of an emotional precipice. One of them will attempt suicide. And with Dickinson's poetry as their guide, both girls must conquer their personal demons to ever be happy.
In an emotionally taut novel that is equal parts literary and commercial, with a richly diverse cast of characters, readers will relish in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and be completely swept up in the turmoil of two girls fighting for their lives in Cindy L. Rodriguez's stunning debut.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Seventh Grade and over, Reading Age: From 13 years
ISBN-13
978-1-61963-413-8 (9781619634138)
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Cindy L. Rodriguez
When Reason Breaks
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02/2015
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
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Person
Cindy L. Rodriguez is a former newspaper reporter turned public school teacher. She now teaches as a reading specialist at a Connecticut middle school but previously worked for the Hartford Courant and the Boston Globe. She and her young daughter live in Plainville, Connecticut. This is her debut novel.
Twitter: @RodriguezCindyL
Twitter: @RodriguezCindyL
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1 "When One has given up One's life"
- Chapter 2 "Adrift! A little boat adrift!"
- Chapter 3 "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -"
- Chapter 4 "The ones that disappeared are back"
- Chapter 5 "I haven't told my garden yet -"
- Chapter 6 My Letter to the World
- Chapter 7 "Denial - is the only fact"
- Chapter 8 "We introduce ourselves"
- Chapter 9 "Forbidden Fruit a flavor has"
- Chapter 10 "I dwell in Possibility -"
- Chapter 11 "Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?"
- Chapter 12 "A Secret told -"
- Chapter 13 Letter #1
- Chapter 14 "When we have ceased to care"
- Chapter 15 "Pain has but one Acquaintance"
- Chapter 16 "I can't tell you - but you feel it -"
- Chapter 17 "Death is the supple Suitor"
- Chapter 18 My Letter to the World
- Chapter 19 "I was the slightest in the House -"
- Chapter 20 "That Distance was between Us"
- Chapter 21 Letter #2
- Chapter 22 "We talked as Girls do -"
- Chapter 23 My Letter to the World
- Chapter 24 " 'Tis so appalling-it exhilarates"
- Chapter 25 Letter #3
- Chapter 26 "To try to speak, and miss the way"
- Chapter 27 "I hide myself within my flower"
- Chapter 28 "The Soul has Bandaged moments -"
- Chapter 29 "A poor - torn heart - a tattered heart -"
- Chapter 30 "Alone and in a Circumstance"
- Chapter 31 "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
- Chapter 32 "I am ashamed - I hide -"
- Chapter 33 My Letter to the World
- Chapter 34 "This World is not Conclusion"
- Chapter 35 "Back from the cordial Grave I drag thee"
- Chapter 36 "How well I knew Her not"
- Chapter 37 "Is it too late to touch you, Dear?"
- Chapter 38 "Such are the inlets of the mind -"
- Chapter 39 "Growth of Man - like Growth of Nature -"
- Chapter 40 "I found the words to every thought"
- Chapter 41 " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers -"
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- eCopyright
