The lucky ones

Title:

The lucky ones

Author:

Lawson, Liz, 1980- author.

Personal Author:

Lawson, Liz, 1980- author.

ISBN:

9780593118498

9780593118504

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

343 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

"In the aftermath of a school tragedy, May and Zach struggle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the complex emotional impact of the event, learning how to heal and hope in the face of it all"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Grief -- Fiction.

School shootings -- Fiction.

High schools -- Fiction.

Suicide -- Prevention -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Romance

Summary:

"In the aftermath of a school tragedy, May and Zach struggle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the complex emotional impact of the event, learning how to heal and hope in the face of it all"--

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Summary

For fans of Thirteen Reasons Why , This Is How It Ends , and All the Bright Places , comes a new novel about life after. How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all?

May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like one. She feels angry. And lost. And alone. Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn't know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. No one gets what she went through--no one saw and heard what she did. No one can possibly understand how it feels to be her.

Zach lost his old life when his mother decided to defend the shooter. His girlfriend dumped him, his friends bailed, and now he spends his time hanging out with his little sister...and the one faithful friend who stuck around. His best friend is needy and demanding, but he won't let Zach disappear into himself. Which is how Zach ends up at band practice that night. The same night May goes with her best friend to audition for a new band.

Which is how May meets Zach. And how Zach meets May. And how both might figure out that surviving could be an option after all.

A Chicago Public Library Systems selection for Best Teen Fiction
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020
A Texas Library Association 2021 Reading List selection

" A must-read for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and This Is How It Ends ."-- Paste Magazine

"A gripping, emotional, suspenseful, and ultimately hopeful story about loss, survivor's guilt, and learning to find love and trust again. Put The Lucky Ones on your 2020 TBR list-- you do NOT want to miss it! " --Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying

"A harrowing and beautifully told story about how far the tentacles of tragedy can reach. May's story of grief, survival, and reckoning is tenderly and honestly explored. A simply stunning debut." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Two teens find each other (and themselves) with a little help from their friends in this story of survival, perseverance, and hope.In alternating first-person narration, two familiar character typesloose-cannon May McGintee and awkward try-hard Zach Tellerare quickly defamiliarized. May is the sole survivor of a massacre that robbed her twin brother, favorite teacher, and five peers of their lives. She's struggled with survivor's guilt and PTSD ever since, and her best friend, Lucy, is the only person who keeps her going. Zach has been taking care of his family, especially younger sister Gwen, since his father fell into a deep depression five years ago. When his attorney mother defends the shooter, almost everybody he knowsexcept his best friend, Conorabandons him. When Lucy auditions for Conor's band, May and Zach meet cute. As May begins putting herself back together, Zach learns what being there truly entails. Lawson's extraordinary knack for navigating typical teenage-rule predicamentsparent problems, friend frustration, budding desireand the most searing circumstancesloss, terror, rage, faultkeeps the plot at a boil. Though shaped like a romance, Lawson's remarkable debut celebrates love's many forms, from friends who refuse to be pushed away to families slowly closing years of distance. Lucy is Haitian; Conor, Zach, and May are white.Wildly ambitious and wholly empathetic, devastatingly raw, and impossibly gentle; a must-read in this moment. (author's note, resources) (Fiction. 14-18) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.