Love in Complete Sentences

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2011
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Life is a challenge for thirty-six year-old Kate Cavanaugh, high school guidance counselor to a motley group of at-risk students. Widowed two years ago, Kate's storybook life has vanished - daughter Charlotte, once a sweet girl, has morphed into an angry, tattooed, teen; and Hunter, her four-year-old, keeps his feelings sealed tight inside and a ketchup bottle clasped to his heart. When a tragedy occurs at the Alan B. Shepard High School, it's Kate who finds herself in need of counsel. What she does next catapults her and her family on a trajectory into space - toward understanding, forgiveness and healing.

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Life is a challenge for thirty-six year-old Kate Cavanaugh, high school guidance counselor to a motley group of at-risk students. Widowed two years ago, Kate's storybook life has vanished - daughter Charlotte, once a sweet girl, has morphed into an angry, tattooed, teen; and Hunter, her four-year-old, keeps his feelings sealed tight inside and a ketchup bottle clasped to his heart. When a tragedy occurs at the Alan B. Shepard High School, it's Kate who finds herself in need of counsel. What she does next catapults her and her family on a trajectory into space - toward understanding, forgiveness and healing.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Original
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 03 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 0312656696
ISBN 13: 9780312656690

Media Reviews

Get out the tissues, but plan on reading this impressive, stirring novel straight through. - Kirkus Reviews. Mitchell pitches life's hardball themes of death, grief, and redemption with piercing clarity and magically interlaces romance and humour into her family saga. - Library Journal (Starred Review)

Author Bio

is author of the novel Starting Out Sideways. A writer of fiction, non-fiction and essays, she has published her work in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Contrary Magazine, The Writing Self, Family Circle, First for Women, and online at Kaplancollege.com. She is a recipient of the New England PEN Discovery Award for her novel, The Nearness of You. For years she has taught writing at the Joan Brack Adult Learning Center and Bethany Hill School, a living and learning community, both in Framingham, Massachusetts. She lives with her husband in Massachusetts.