![]() This book will take up to 28 days to arrive. ![]() Life goes on, but in those four fleeting days friends are lost and found, promises are made, and Ellis realizes that nothing will ever quite be the same, in 37 Things I Love (in no particular order) by Kekla Magoon, who won the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for the Rock and the River, whose book X: A Novel (written with Ilyasah Shabazz) was longlisted for the National Book Award, and who earned the Coretta Scott King Author Honor for How it Went Down. Kekla Magoon - 37 Things I Love, Paperback - A powerful story about friendship, death, and figuring out who you are, from the author of How It Went Down. But when all seems bleak, Ellis finds comfort in the most unexpected places. Her best friend fails even to notice that anything is wrong and Ellis feels like her world is falling apart. ![]() So it was quite delightful to discover she has quite the backlist, including this quiet gem about a girl named Ellis whose comatose father is in his last days. Her father has been in a coma for years, the result of a construction accident, and her already-fragile relationship with her mother is strained over whether or not to remove him from life support. 37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order), by Kekla Magoon I was introduced to Magoon via her most recent release, the thoughtful, compelling, and all-too-relevant How it Went Down. But even with vacation just within reach, Ellis isn't exactly relaxed. ![]() A powerful story about friendship, death, and figuring out who you are, from the author of How It Went Down, The Rock and the River, and X: A Novel (with Ilyasah Shabazz)Įllis only has four days of her sophomore year left, and summer is so close that she can almost taste it. ![]()
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