A Year to the Day by Robin Benway

HarperTeen

9780062854438

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A Year to the Day

In a beautiful, profound novel told backward, National Book Award winner Robin Benway explores the process of navigating sorrow and learning to love again.

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Review of ‘A Year to the Day’

Leo's older sister, Nina, died 365 days ago. National Book Award winner Robin Benway's A Year to the Day opens on the one-year anniversary of Nina's death, and each chapter takes the reader one step further back in time.

From the moment Leo regains consciousness after…

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