Todo comienza con un trabajo para la clase de Literatura: escribir una carta a una persona muerta. Laurel decide escribirle a Kurt Cobain, quien murió joven como May, su hermana. Luego de la primera carta, ya no puede detenerse, y escribirá otras a Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison y Heath Ledger, entre otros personajes famosos. Sin embargo, no le entrega ninguna a su profesora.La tarea permanece oculta… como tantas cosas de su vida.
Laurel escribe sobre lo que le pasa: cómo se siente empezar en otra escuela, lo difícil que es forjar nuevas amistades, cómo es el primer amor o vivir con padres separados y, lo más importante, escribe sobre la muerte de May. De esta manera, comienza a relacionar las cosas que compartió con su hermana y sus experiencias personales, con las vidas y muertes de estos íconos. Cuando escriba la verdad sobre lo que le ocurrió, podrá aceptar la muerte de May y solo así logrará verla y recordarla como la persona que siempre fue: adorable, asombrosa e… imperfecta.
Crecer es doloroso. Muchas veces hay un mundo secreto que tarde o temprano hay que enfrentar. Y se enfrenta mejor con la verdad y con ayuda. Un libro para leer con el alma, para compartir con quienes de verdad amamos y queremos cuidar.
Marilyn is in search of freedom. She grew up as a child actor, her mother's meal ticket out of mediocrity. But it's been a long time since she booked a job, and without her contribution to their meager income, she and her mom have no choice but to move in with her volatile uncle. Marilyn is counting down the days until she can escape to college, and the promise of her own future. That is, until she falls in love with James, the boy downstairs, who shows her that her life is worth living in the present. At seventeen, Marilyn is about to learn that everything can change in an instant.
Angie is in search of answers. She is biracial and has never met her father, but she looks and thinks a lot like him-down to her brown skin, curly hair, and thirst for knowledge. Though Angie grew up with her devoted white mother, Marilyn, she's always felt the absence of the man she never knew. But after discovering that her mom has been lying to her, Angie sets off on a road trip to Los Angeles in search of an unknown uncle-and maybe even her dad. At seventeen, she hopes to finally find out the truth about where she came from so she can discover who she truly is.
Told from two perspectives, Marilyn's set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and Angie's in the present, In Search of Us is a sweeping intergenerational story about mothers and daughters, love and loss, holding on and letting go.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Es beginnt mit einem Brief. Laurel soll für ihren Englischunterricht an eine verstorbene Persönlichkeit schreiben. Sie wählt Kurt Cobain, den Lieblingssänger ihrer Schwester May, die ebenfalls viel zu früh starb. Aus dem ersten Brief wird eine lange Unterhaltung mit toten Berühmtheiten. Doch erst, als Laurel die Wahrheit über sich und ihre Schwester May offenbart, findet sie den Weg zurück ins Leben und kann einen letzten Brief an May schreiben ...
Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven’t forgiven? It’s not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she truly start to discover her own path. In a voice that’s as lyrical and as true as a favorite song, Ava Dellaira writes about one girl’s journey through life’s challenges with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty.
