DEAR EDWARD W.UKRAIŃSKA, ANNE NAPOLITANO

Edward is twelve and a lucky boy. He was lucky to survive the plane crash. Unfortunately, his older brother Jordan, his parents and 183 other passengers who boarded a plane to Los Angeles one summer day died. A pregnant girl flying to her boyfriend. A Wall Street prodigy. A wounded veteran returning from Afghanistan. A business tycoon with four ex-wives. A woman with bells on her skirt. For all of them, this flight was the last. But Edward survived. His story has attracted public attention, but the boy needs to learn to live in this absolute loneliness, to find a place for himself in a world without a family. He lives with the feeling that a part of him has remained in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all his fellow passengers. But one day, an unexpected discovery in his uncle's garage leads to answers to some of life's deepest questions. How do you find yourself when you have lost everything? And how do you not just survive, but truly live?