OLDER FICTION
Schutz, Samantha

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(4) YA Brian's death launches Annaleah into an unusually difficult form of grief, since her relationship with him was clandestine. She can't decide whether their private romance was especially sincere or just a sham. Written in first-person free-verse poems, Schutz's exploration of the unanswered questions death can leave behind is poignant, though the story's ending is a little too tidy.

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