EAN: 9780062429148

OUR HEARTS WILL BURN US DOWN - ANNE VALENTE KAR...

The lives of four teenagers are capsized by a shocking school shooting and its aftermath in
this powerful debut novel  a coming-of-age story with the haunting power of Station Eleven and
the bittersweet poignancy of Everything I Never Told You. As members of the yearbook committee
Nick  Zola  Matt  and Christina are eager to capture all the memorable moments of their junior
year at Lewis and Clark High School-the plays and football games  dances and fund-drives 
teachers and classes that are the epicenter of their teenage lives. But how do you document a
horrific tragedy-a deadly school shooting by a classmate? Struggling to comprehend this
cataclysmic event-and propelled by a sense of responsibility to the town  their parents  and
their school-these four lucky survivors vow to honor the memories of those lost  and also  the
memories forgotten in the shadow of violence. But the shooting is only the first inexplicable
trauma to rock their small suburban St. Louis town. A series of mysterious house fires have hit
the families of the victims one by one  pushing the grieving town to the edge. Nick  the son of
the lead detective investigating the events  plunges into the case on his own  scouring the
Internet to uncover what could cause a fire with no evident starting point. As their friend
pulls farther away  Matt and Christina battle to save damaged relationships  while Zola fights
to keep herself together. A story of grief  community  and family  of the search for
understanding and normalcy in the wake of devastating loss  Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down
explores profound questions about resiliency  memory  and recovery that brilliantly illuminate
the deepest recesses of the human heart.

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