"In his unflinching and resonant new novel, Bryan Bliss shows that
there is no straight line through trauma, no easy recipe for healing.
Instead, in three loosely connected stories of young people bound by an
all-too familiar tragedy, he deftly illuminates the small moments of
human connection and resolve that might just lead to a place of
grace."--Gayle Forman, bestselling author of If I Stay and I Have
Lost My Way
Fight. Flight. Freeze. What do you do when you can't move on, even
though the rest of the world seems to have?
Powerful and tense, Thoughts & Prayers is an extraordinary novel
that explores what it means to heal and to feel safe in a world that
constantly chooses violence.
Claire, Eleanor, and Brezzen have little in common. Claire fled to
Minnesota with her older brother, Eleanor is the face of a social
movement, and Brezzen retreated into the fantasy world of Wizards &
Warriors.
But a year ago, they were linked. They all hid under the same staircase
and heard the shots that took the lives of some of their classmates and
a teacher. Now, each one copes with the trauma as best as they can, even
as the world around them keeps moving.
Told in three loosely connected but inextricably intertwined stories,
National Book Award-longlisted author Bryan Bliss's Thoughts & Prayers
follows three high school students in the aftermath of a school
shooting. Thoughts & Prayers is a story about gun violence, but more
importantly it is the story of what happens after the reporters leave
and the news cycle moves on to the next tragedy. It is the story of
three unforgettable teens who feel forgotten.
For readers of Jason Reynolds, Marieke Nijkamp, and Laurie Halse
Anderson.
