The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak
From Stonewall Honor author Christopher Barzak comes a haunting novel of
love and loss, in which a series of tornadoes rips through a small midwest
town, forever altering the lives of those who live there.
Ellie heads
up her high school yearbook, and until the tornadoes come, her biggest worry is
how to raise enough money to print them. But since the day when a rash of
powerful tornadoes touched down in Newfoundland, Ohio--killing more than half
of the students in her school, not to mention dozens more people throughout the
town--she's been haunted: by the ghosts of her best friends, by the boy next
door, even by her boyfriend. And the living are haunting her too, all those
left behind in the storm's wake to cope with the "gone away" pieces
in their lives. A chance encounter with one ghost leads Ellie to discover a way
to free the spirits that have been lingering since the storm, and she learns
that she's not the only one seeing the ghosts--it's a town-wide epidemic.
