Waiting on Wednesday (42): Me Since You

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine.

I read my first Laura Wiess novel for book club this year, Ordinary Beauty, and I really liked it. I definitely need more of her books in my life, because they stomp on your heart in the way that I love from my contemporaries.

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Me Since You

Author: Laura Wiess
Expected Publication Date: September 3, 2013
Publisher: MTV Books

Synopsis from Goodreads:
Sixteen-year-old Rowan is still reeling from her father’s suicide four months ago, after he failed to stop a man from leaping off an overpass to his death. The only witness is Eli, a teenaged boy wrapped deep in mourning for his own father, killed in action in Afghanistan. When Rowan and Eli meet, they recognize kindred spirits, and begin to navigate grief and its aftermath together.

Rowan can’t understand how her father could choose to leave her, and acts out, pushing away friends and taking risks with her safety. Rowan’s mother, wracked with her own guilt and sorrow over failing to save her husband, stops going to work and collects stray cats for comfort. Grief, fractured and unpredictable, rules their lives now. Rowan is lost—and sinking. But Eli represents a lifeline for Rowan, and as they struggle to make sense of what’s gone and what is left behind, they begin to fall in love. Me Since You is Laura Wiess at her finest—a beautiful, gripping and painfully honest examination of adolescence.