All Rivers Flow to the Sea, Alison McGhee
All Rivers Flow to the Sea, Alison McGhee
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All Rivers Flow to the Sea

Author: Alison McGhee

Narrator: Carine Montbertrand

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/26/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

When a car accident leaves a teenage girl in a coma, her surviving sister struggles with grief and guilt as she faces the inevitability of moving on—and letting go. To seventeen-year-old Rose, it seems it keeps happening—that car crash on a mountain road, her older sister, Ivy, behind the wheel, the same Ivy who is now in a coma with only the WISHHH of a respirator keeping her alive. Mom refuses to believe that Ivy is gone and won't even visit, spending her days at the brewing factory and her nights in the mindless weaving of potholders or folding of paper cranes. It's up to Rose and family friend William T. to make the daily vigil to Ivy's bedside, where Rose reads aloud from a book on the sudden destruction of ancient Pompeii. More and more, she has the frightening sense that there are rivers inside her threatening to overflow their banks. In an effort to feel something—anything—else, she takes to meeting a series of boys at the gorge while her mind drifts away like a hovering bird, watching her actions below. Heart-rending, honest, and ultimately hopeful, this first young adult novel from the acclaimed author of Shadow Baby and Snap is the poetically told story of a teenager overwhelmed by trauma and loss yet steadied by loyal friendships and, finally, the solace of first love. "The cadence of the words flows smoothly, and readers vicariously experience the claustrophobic quarters of Rose's mind."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About Alison McGhee

Alison McGhee is the New York Times bestselling author of Someday, as well as Dear Sister, What I Leave Behind, Pablo and Birdy, Where We Are, Maybe a Fox with Kathi Appelt, Firefly Hollow, Little Boy, So Many Days, Star Bright, A Very Brave Witch, Dear Brother, and the Bink and Gollie books. Her other children’s books include All Rivers Flow to the Sea, Countdown to Kindergarten, and Snap!. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Laguna Beach, California. You can visit her at AlisonMcGhee.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Logan on February 08, 2019

This book is about pain, suffer, regret, doubt, healing. All the key components of a good book. In my book group, I was a bit "shady" about the fact that she was hooking up with boys at the gorge, but I guess I understand her pain. I understand that she is trying to feel something she has never fel......more

Goodreads review by Stefanie on January 01, 2017

Not one of the better YA books I've read. Found the repetitive text annoying as opposed to moving which is what I think McGhee was going for. It reminds me of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and other YA books where the main character feels trapped by a traumatic event, but less believable somehow. I......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on January 29, 2019

I really liked this book. The book was sad and kinda confusing at times because of the POV and so I had to reread a sentence a couple times to understand it. This book is about a girl named Rose. Rose and her sister Ivy got into a car accident and they both got hurt really bad. They were both in com......more