Dear Zoe

Praise for Dear Zoe

“Like The Lovely Bones, [Dear Zoe] is a piercing look at how family recovers from a devastating loss. Everything about this moving, powerful debut rings true.”—Booklist (starred review) 

“Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist’s anguish simply and sensitively…and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters.”—The Washington Post

“Affecting.”—Entertainment Weekly

“The whole novel…rings with truth.”—The Buffalo News

“Lovely…moving.”—Publishers Weekly

“In his soulful debut novel…Philip Beard does a pitch-perfect impersonation but never sugar-coats the depths of a young girl’s despair.”—Pittsburg-Post Gazette

“Dear Zoe is an almost flawless novel of self-discovery and redemption. It is the sort of book that a generation can call ‘theirs,’ a book that captures the trials of adolescence and the aching numbness of America in the aftermath of 9/11.”—The Press of Atlantic City