An achingly raw and surprisingly funny novel about coping with loss.
"The End or Something Like That breaks your heart and mends it back together with hope and humor."-Ally Condie, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Matched trilogy
"You will truly love this book."-Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures series
"A hilarious and awesomely weird ode to friendship and youth-with the kind of stellar prose that won't let you look away."-John Corey Whaley, Printz Award-winning author of Where Things Come Back
When a lifetime isn't long enough . . .
Emmy would like to think that friendship can last forever. But with Kim's chronic heart condition, Emmy knows they're running out of time. So the girls make up a plan to connect once Kim crosses over to the other side. The problem is, now that Kim is gone, Emmy can't seem to bridge the gap between real life and the afterlife. Which makes her wonder if what happened right before Kim died may have changed everything.
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Ann Dee Ellis is the author of This is What I Did: and Everything is Fine. This is What I Did: received three starred reviews and was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an IRA honor book, and a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction pick. Ann Dee lives in Utah with her husband and four sons.
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For fans of Sara Zarr and Stephen Chbosky, an achingly raw and surprisingly funny novel about coping with loss Emmy's best friend Kim had promised to visit from the afterlife after she died. But so far Kim hasn't shown up even once. Emmy blames herself for not believing hard enough. Finally, as the one-year anniversary of Kim's death approaches, Emmy is visited by a ghost—but it's not Kim. It's Emmy's awful dead science teacher. Emmy can't help but think that she's failed at being a true friend. But as more ghosts appear, she starts to realize that she's not alone in her pain. Kim would have wanted her to move forward—and to do that, Emmy needs to start letting go.