Saturday, June 14, 2014

Ketchup Clouds

Pitcher, Annabel. Ketchup Clouds. 2013. 272p. ISBN 978-0316246767. Available both as a book an eBook on Overdrive. This book has been nominated for a Flume Award in 2015.



Zoe got away with murder, but guilt eats at her. She can’t share with anyone what happened that night in the woods with brothers Max and Aaron, and how one of them ended up dead. She decides to write to a Texas murderer on death row and share with him her feelings, building up to the big night when everything got terribly wrong. And unlike Mr. Smith, Zoe got away with it.

Through her letters over the course of six months, she shares with the inmate her family life, how her relationship with Max, the most popular boy in school, started, and how she met his brother Aaron, with whom she instantly fell in love. She talks about sorting through her feeling, trying to do what’s right while her family life falls apart over her younger sister Dot’s deafness and her grandfather’s heart attack.


The love triangle is a powerful one, and Zoe must ultimately decide whom she will choose, even if it ends badly.


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