![]() ![]() ![]() Sandell's two previous novels were written in verse and, despite occasional emotional editorializing, her fluid phrasing and choice of metaphors give her prose a quiet poetic ambience. THE WEIGHT OF THE SKY is the little-bit-autobiographical but mostly fictional story of a sixteen year old American girl who travels to Israel for a summer. Sandell creates a satisfying tension by juxtaposing Cora's grief and anger at her parents with her developing attraction to Damian and her growing sense of possibility about her own future. A new friend, the encouragement of an art teacher and growing interest in her brother's best friend, Damian, who was in the car when he was killed, all slowly revive her emotional life and self-confidence. LISA ANN SANDELL is the author of The Weight of the Sky, a novel in verse that Kirkus described as lovely and poignant. Now I'll be the girl whose brother died”) and with her parents lost to their numbing grief, Cora finds sustenance in her passion for maps and mapmaking. Liel Leibovitz is editor at large for Tablet Magazine and a host of its weekly culture podcast Unorthodox and daily Talmud podcast Take One. Dreading her entrance to high school seven months after the event (“If he had still been alive, I might have had a fighting chance at being able to distance myself from him. Lisa Ann Sandell is the author of the young-adult books The Weight of the Sky, Song of the Sparrow, and A Map of the Known World. ![]() Family life comes to an abrupt halt for 14-year-old Cora after the death of her older brother, Nate, in a car accident. ![]()
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