Dear Reader: A Novel
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“Imaginative, exhilarating, genre-bending, and one of the best YA novels of the year.” —BookRiot
“An audacious tale. Like much classic literature and like growing up, reading this immersive novel is all about the experience.” —The Horn Book
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Gilmore Girls meets Wuthering Heights in Mary O'Connell's Dear Reader, a whip-smart, poignant, modern-day take on Emily Brontë’s classic novel.
For seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney’s AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn't show up to teach Flannery's favorite book, Wuthering Heights, leaving behind her purse, Flannery knows something is wrong.
The police are called, and Flannery gives them everything—except Miss Sweeney's copy of Wuthering Heights. This she holds onto. And good thing she does, because when she opens it, it has somehow transformed into Miss Sweeney's real-time diary. It seems Miss Sweeney is in New York City—and she's in trouble.
So Flannery does something very unFlannery-like: she skips school and sets out for Manhattan, with the book as her guide. But as soon as she arrives, she meets a boy named Heath. Heath is British, on a gap year, incredibly smart—yet he's never heard of Albert Einstein or Anne Frank. In fact, Flannery can't help thinking that he seems to have stepped from the pages of Brontë's novel. Could it be that Flannery is spending this topsy-turvy day with her ultimate fictional romantic hero, Heathcliff, reborn in the twenty-first century?
Mary O'Connell
MARY O'CONNELL is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of the short story collection, Living With Saints, and the YA novel, The Sharp Time. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in several literary magazines, and she is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship and a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She lives with her husband and her three children in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Reviews for Dear Reader
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it did make me wish I remembered more of Wuthering Heights (and that I had enjoyed that classic novel more). In many ways, this book is a modern take on the story, with the teenage Flannery playing the role of an external observer who learns of the story of her English teacher's passionate love through a book she left behind. Those who love books and nineteenth century should definitely check out this retelling of a classic tale.
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