Publisher: Blink
Date of publicaiotn: February 2019
The carnage began with the roses. She hacked at their
ruffled blooms until they dropped into monstrous drifts of red on the parched
yellow lawn … Only two things kept my mother grounded to us: my uncle Stephen
and stories.”
Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and
her parents’ failed marriage, but mostly about her mother’s growing depression.
Molly knows her mother is nursing a carefully-kept secret. A writer with an
obsession for other people’s life stories, Elaine Donnelly is the poster child
of repressed emotions.
Molly spends her California summer alternately watching out
for her little brother Angus and tip-toeing around her mother’s raw feelings.
Molly needs her mother more than ever, but Elaine shuts herself off from real
human connections and buries herself in the lives and deaths of the strangers
she writes about. When Uncle Stephen is pressed into the limelight because of
his miracle cure of a young man, Elaine can no longer hide behind other
people’s stories. And as Molly digs into her mother’s past, she finds a secret
hidden in her mother’s dresser that may be the key to unlocking a family
mystery dating to 1918 New York—a secret that could destroy or save their
future.
Told in dual narratives between 1918 New York City and 1955
San Jose, California, Between Before and After, by
award-winning author Maureen McQuerry, explores the nature of family secrets,
resiliency, and redemption. This is an historical coming-of-age Young Adult
story about the complex bonds between mothers and daughters.
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About Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Maureen McQuerry is an award winning poet, novelist and
teacher. Her YA novel, The Peculiars is an ALA Best Book
for YA 2013, Bank Street and Home Book recommended book. Her MG fantasy
duo, Beyond the Door and The Telling Stone were
a Booklist Top Ten Fantasy/SciFi for Youth and a finalist for the WA State Book
awards. Her poetry appears in many journals and anthologies. She
lives in Washington State.
Connect with Maureen
Maureen’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS
Monday, February 4th: @girlsinbooks
Tuesday, February 5th: @the_readers_nook
Wednesday, February 6th: Blooming
with Books
Thursday, February 7th: Books
and Cats and Coffee
Monday, February 11th: A
Bookish Way of Life
Wednesday, February 13th: @read.write.coffee
Thursday, February 14th: 100
Pages a Day
Monday, February 18th: @prose_and_palate
Tuesday, February 19th: From the TBR Pile
Tuesday, February 19th: Rockin’ Book Reviews
Wednesday, February 20th: @createexploreread
Monday, February 25th: Run
Wright
Tuesday, February 26th: @librarycutie
Thursday, February 28th: Book Fidelity
Friday, March 1st: What is That Book About
1 comment:
Thanks for being on the tour!
Sara @ TLC Book Tours
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