Now You Say Yes
- Author Bill Harley
- Narrator Taylor Meskimen
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 2 August 2022
- Run Time 6 hours and 59 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Adoption / fostering, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First experiences and growing up, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Runaways.
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What to expect
When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Mari is desperate to avoid being caught up in the foster system. Again. And to complicate matters, she is now the only one who can take care of her super-smart and on-the-spectrum nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor.
Is there anyone Mari can trust to help them? Certainly not her mother’s current boyfriend, Dennis. Not the doctors or her teachers, who would be obliged to call in social services. So in a desperate move, Mari takes Conor and sets out to find their estranged grandmother, hoping to throw themselves at the mercy of the only person who might take them in.
On their way to New England, the duo experience the snarls of LA traffic, the backroads of the Midwest, and a monumental stop in Missouri where they witness the solar eclipse, an event with which Conor is obsessed. Mari also learns about the inner workings of her stepbrother’s mind and about her connections to him and to the world … and maybe even a little about her own place in it.
A beautiful exploration of identity and family, this heartwarming and engaging middle grade novel comes from renowned storyteller and two-time Grammy Award winner Bill Harley.
Critics Review
u201cI rooted for outcast-misfit protagonists Mari and Conor every mile (and every single page!) of their intimate and epic, grief-fueled road trip. Bill Harleyu2019s Now You Say Yes reminds us that acts of kindnessu2015big and smallu2015make all the difference.u201d
u201cA grand journey measured in both physical and emotional distance.u201d
u201cThis poetically written and economically plotted herou2019s journeyu2026makes a heartwarming, hopeful case for self-forgiveness and second chances.u201d
u201cAs hopeful as it is heartbreaking, the novel Now You Say Yes follows a siblingsu2019 search for a place in the world.u201d
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