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WE'LL FLY AWAY

Bryan Bliss

Bryan Bliss tells Luke and Toby's story in chapters alternating between high school (told in third person POV) and letters written from Death Row. As the book unfolds, readers gradually learn what happened in their final years of school - shocking events that would change their lives forever.

Luke and Toby are best friends, they have been since they were kids. And they've wanted to escape their small North Carolina town and their difficult family lives for just as long. Now Luke and Toby are in high school, and escape is finally within their reach. Luke is a state wrestling champion and a scholarship will be his ticket out. He's confident he can make sure that Toby can get out with him until everything spins out of control. Bryan Bliss is the author of No Parking at the End Times and Meet Me Here, which was a Paste Best Book of 2016. His nonfiction has been published in Image along with various newspapers and magazines.

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Book Published 2018-05-08 by Greenwillow

Comments

WE'LL FLY AWAY is A Junior Library Guild selection An Amazon Best YA Book of the Month for May 2018 An Amazon's Best Young Adult Books of the Year So Far selection for June 2018

A powerful story of loyalty, betrayal, and crippling family dysfunction.

WE'LL FLY AWAY by Bryan Bliss has made the longlist for the National Book Award!

Bliss excels at this kind of storytelling, the sort that zeros in on a character and offers a full, vibrant picture of his or her circumstances and choices. Those choices might not always make sense, or they might be driven by fear or jealousy, but he instills so much raw humanity in his characters that it's nearly impossible not to empathize. It might seem like We'll Fly Away is a book with an anti-death penalty message, and while that's certainly true in part, its larger agenda - maybe even the larger goal of Bliss' writing in general - is to dare his readers not only to see the depths of human complexity, but to care.

A realistic and emotional story that will be an excellent choice for high school libraries.

This compassionate and beautifully rendered novel packs an emotional punch.

Young adult readers will feel that justice has not been served and will question the justice system; the law has been upheld, but at what cost? This book will stick with them for a long time.

The airplane in the woods feels like my own scar, nowa broken hope embodied. In my mind, Bliss's novel belongs in that pantheon of realistic young adult fiction. It feels perfectly crafted. For all of its sorrow, We'll Fly Away is a joy of a read - the joy of youth, the joy of hope, and joy that even after terrible mistakes, as the subtitle says, none of us are ever finished Read more...

A smart, rugged, all-too-true story of friendship under fire. Believable characters and page turning tension. Bryan Bliss is going to be around for a while.