The Impossible Knife of Memory
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak): Laurie Halse Anderson is one of the greatest writers of YA literature today and anyone who thinks otherwise can take it up with me.
This book is one of her most personal books to date as Anderson is able to base this on her own childhood experience with a WWII veteran father who suffered with PTSD. This compelling and realistic story is about a single father who returns from the Iraq War with deep emotional scars and a daughter who wants desperately to heal him at all costs. Griping and heart-wrenching, this book is one you’ll need a box of tissues by your bedside as you read and one that you’ll think about long after you put the book down.
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