The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and
What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about
resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the
legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to
survive.
A luminous, lovely story about a girl who builds a future from the
ashes of her past. --KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling
author of Girl in Pieces
Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future.
Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish
exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet
memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into
tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in
the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful
day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the
picture, Abbi (aka Baby Hope) wears a birthday crown and grasps a red
balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is
collapsing.
Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to
spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a
counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight
weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of
Baby Hope.
Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that
terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby
Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team
up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope
photo. But is either of them ready to hear the answers?
