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From Carnegie Award-winning author Sarah Crossan comes a poignant and thought-provoking novel that explores life, death, love and forgiveness.Seventeen-year-old Joe hasn't seen his brother in ten years. Ed didn't walk out on the family, not exactly. It's something more brutal.Ed's locked up -- on death row.Now his execution date has been set, and the clock is ticking. Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with his brother, no matter what other people think ... and no matter whether Ed committed the crime. But did he? And does it matter, in the end? This poignant, timely, heartbreaking novel asks big questions: What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? And just how do you say goodbye?Acclaim for Sarah Crossan2016 Carnegie Award winner, OneShortlisted for the 2016 FCBG Book Award, Apple and RainShortlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Award, Apple and RainShortlisted for the 2013 Carnegie Award, The Weight of Water
About the Author
Sarah Crossan is Irish. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University and worked to promote creative writing in schools before leaving teaching to write full time. She completed her Masters in creative writing at the University of Warwick. In 2010 received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing.
