Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

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9780062110473: Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062110470 ISBN 13: 9780062110473

Publisher: Harperteen, 2012

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Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You is renowned author Joyce Carol Oates's newest novel for teens. Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Wintergirls and Speak, said that "the painful honesty of this book will crack open your heart."Senior year, their last year together, Merissa and Nadia need their best friend Tink more than they ever did before. They have secrets they can share with no one but her, toxic secrets that threaten to unravel their friendship--and themselves. Tink had a secret, too, a big one, but no one knows what it was. And now she's gone. . . .In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews described Joyce Carol Oates as "a master at portraying the inner lives of teens." In Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You, she's created a powerful portrayal of a friendship strong enough to transcend death.

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Review:

"Touching and believable. An unusually sensitive and sympathetic assessment."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"A gripping, beautifully written, impecabbly paced psychological thriller."--Kirkus Reviews

For Big Mouth & Ugly Girl: "Oates scores with a gripping story."--Washington Post

For Sexy: "Palpable and compelling."--The Horn Book

"A fast pastiche that is as much a triptych of pain as a reminder of resilience."--ALA Booklist

For After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away: "Oates gets the contemporary teen voice just right, and Jenna's first-person narrative moves at breakneck speed."--ALA Booklist

"[A] riveting and poignant story of three teenage girls in crisis. [Oates] is a master at portraying the complex, emotional inner lives of these teens, and their contemporary adolescent voices and perceptions (and misperceptions) ring true. Intense, keenly insightful, nuanced and affecting."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"[An] excellent novel filled with haunting details."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A thought-provoking, character-driven drama."--Booklist (starred review)

"Believable, full-blooded characters propel Oates's first YA novel. The relationship . . . grows, credibly and compellingly, against a convincing high school backdrop."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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