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THE S-WORD
This is an edgy teen mystery that explores the deeply relevant issues of suicide, bullying and teen sexuality.
Outgoing Angie and shy, prudish Lizzie have been best friends since Kindergarten. But when Angie catches Lizzie in a tryst with her boyfriend, Drake, on prom night, Angie can no longer look Lizzie in the face. Even when Lizzie gets branded Queen of the Sluts, and the S-word shows up on her car and locker, Angie won’t give her a chance to explain.
Then Lizzie commits suicide, and Angie wishes she’d talked to her when she had the chance. Several weeks after Lizzie’s death, the phrase “Suicide Slut” starts showing up at school, along with pages of Lizzie’s diary, and Angie decides it’s time to act. Using clues from the diary, she begins looking into the lives of the people who hated Lizzie the most. And while she tells herself she simply wants to punish Lizzie’s tormentors, deep down she hopes to assuage her own guilt for abandoning her best friend. As her investigation progresses, she discovers that she may have never known her best friend after all.
With her sharp tongue and quick wit, Angie brings to mind the sassy charm of Veronica Mars. At turns vulnerable and fierce, haunted by loss and guilt yet yearning for deliverance, she aims to sleuth out the mystery of her best friend’s death but in turns finds the truth about her own life.
Chelsea Pitcher is a native of Portland, OR, where she received her BA in English Literature. Fascinated by all things literary, she began gobbling up stories as soon as she could read, and has a penchant for visiting the darker places to see if she can find some light. Her writing has appeared in the magazines Illumen and Sounds of the Night. Her short story retelling of a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream was published in HarperCollins' Teen Classics edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and her short story "The Raven and the Razor" has been accepted for author Francesca Lia Block's Love/Magick e-anthology due out next Valentine's Day. The S-Word is her first novel.
Then Lizzie commits suicide, and Angie wishes she’d talked to her when she had the chance. Several weeks after Lizzie’s death, the phrase “Suicide Slut” starts showing up at school, along with pages of Lizzie’s diary, and Angie decides it’s time to act. Using clues from the diary, she begins looking into the lives of the people who hated Lizzie the most. And while she tells herself she simply wants to punish Lizzie’s tormentors, deep down she hopes to assuage her own guilt for abandoning her best friend. As her investigation progresses, she discovers that she may have never known her best friend after all.
With her sharp tongue and quick wit, Angie brings to mind the sassy charm of Veronica Mars. At turns vulnerable and fierce, haunted by loss and guilt yet yearning for deliverance, she aims to sleuth out the mystery of her best friend’s death but in turns finds the truth about her own life.
Chelsea Pitcher is a native of Portland, OR, where she received her BA in English Literature. Fascinated by all things literary, she began gobbling up stories as soon as she could read, and has a penchant for visiting the darker places to see if she can find some light. Her writing has appeared in the magazines Illumen and Sounds of the Night. Her short story retelling of a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream was published in HarperCollins' Teen Classics edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and her short story "The Raven and the Razor" has been accepted for author Francesca Lia Block's Love/Magick e-anthology due out next Valentine's Day. The S-Word is her first novel.
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