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Dear Zoe
An AudioFile Earphone Award Winner Philip Beard
Read by Cassandra Morris
Available as a downloadable audiobook fromAudible (iPod; Zune/Windows Media Player compatible) Borders (Zune/Windows Media Player compatible)
A keenly felt and exquisitely written debut novel that explores the complexities of loss, love, and family.
Philip Beard's stunning debut is an epistolary novel written from fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio to her little sister Zoe. After Zoe's accidental death on September 11, 2001—a day so many others died—Tess's family is numbed by their personal tragedy. Already acutely aware of her odd place in a home where her mother and stepfather now have children of their own, Tess begins her letter as a mean of figuring out her own life—from her two-hour-a-day hair and makeup ritual to her complicity in Zoe's death. Only after she moves in with her real father, a well-intentioned deadbeat, and stumbles into a halting romance with a sweet but aimless boy next door, does Tess begin to open her heart once more.
Not since The Lovely Bones has there been a study of grief, adolescence, and healing that rings as true as Dear Zoe. In Tess, a girl on the verge of womanhood, Beard has crafted a pitch-perfect narrator and a debut novel of rare power and grace that will remain with listeners long after the story is ended.
PRAISE FOR THE AUDIO EDITION:"Cassandra Morris crafts a tender narration reflective of Tess’s struggle with guilt and grief. Although the story is heartrending, Morris manages to lift listeners’ spirits with glimpses of Zoe’s humor while revealing Tess’s core as she works through sorrowful reminiscences filled with intimate details at a time of great crisis, personal and global. Morris captures Tess’s spirit, revealing strength of spirit and love."
—Audiofile
"Tess's story is told in the form of letters written to Zoe, and read by voice actress Cassandra Morris. It's a triumphant performance, never soaked in sentimentality but an uncompromising rendering of the thoughts and experiences undergone by Tess following her little sister's death."
—Gail Cooke, Amazon.com Top Ten Reviewer
Audiobooks Unabridged; 4¾ hours on 5 CDs
978-1-56511-942-0 (CD) Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
PHILIP BEARD is a writer, teacher, and attorney in Pittsburgh, where he lives with his wife and their three daughters. This is his first novel.
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