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Dear Edward

Ann Napolitano

2020340 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2020
first published
  • 2020The Dial Press · 340 pages · ENGISBN 9781984854780
  • 2020Penguin Books, Limited · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780241384077
  • 2020Random House Publishing Group · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780593133125
  • 2021Thorndike Press · ENGISBN 9781432884680
  • 2021Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780241985892
  • 2020VikingISBN 9780241384084
  • 2021Dial Press Trade Paperback · 384 pagesISBN 9781984854803
  • 2020Random House AudioISBN 9780593288528

One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them is a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured vet returning from Afghanistan, a septuagenarian business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. And then, tragically, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward's story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place for himself in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a piece of him has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery--one that will lead him to the answers of some of life's most profound questions: When you've lost everything, how do find yourself? How do you discover your purpose? What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live?

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