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When You Were Here, by Daisy Whitney
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date: 4 June 2013
Filled with humor, raw emotion, a
strong voice, and a brilliant dog named Sandy Koufax, When You Were
Here explores the two most powerful forces known to Man--Death and
Love. Daisy Whitney brings her characters to life with a deft touch
and resonating authenticity.
Danny's mother lost her five-year
battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation--the one day
that she was hanging on to see.
Now Danny is left alone, with only his
memories, his dog, and his heart-breaking ex-girlfriend for company.
He doesn't know how to figure out what to do with her estate, what to
say for his Valedictorian speech, let alone how to live or be happy
anymore.
When he gets a letter from his mom's
property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it
shows a side of his mother that Danny never knew. So, with no other
sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his
mother's memory and make sense of her final months, which seemed
filled with more joy than Danny ever knew. There, among the cherry
blossoms, temples, and crowds, and with the help of an
almost-but-definitely-not Harajuku girl, he begins to see how it may
not have been ancient magic or mystical treatment that kept his
mother going. Perhaps, the secret of how to live lies in how she
died.
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