DESTINY, REWRITTEN

In this third heart-warming and thoughtful story from the author of The Year the Swallows Came Early, an eleven year-old’s searchings for self-identity take her on a journey across her hometown as she seeks for a lost book, a lost father, and the answer to the age-old question of “Who Am I?”

Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily does not even really *like* poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English- professor mother will frown on. Then a seeming tragedy strikes: just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she accidentally loses the special copy of Emily Dickinson’s poetry that was given to her at birth. As Emily and her friends search for the lost book in used bookstores and thrift shops all across town, Emily’s understanding of destiny begins to unravel and then rewrite itself, in a marvelous new way.
In her third novel, Kathryn Fitzmaurice again weaves a richly -textured and delightful story about unexpected connections, about the ways that friends can help us see ourselves for who we truly are, and about the most perfect kinds of happy endings: those that happen just on time. Kathryn Fitzmaurice taught elementary school in California for 12 years before becoming a full-time writer. Destiny, Rewritten is her third novel.