Dear Edward: A Novel by Ann Napolitano

A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame—as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash—in this "stunning novel of courage and connection" (Helen Simonson, bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand).
"A rich, big-hearted tapestry that leaves no one behind . . . Ann Napolitano brings clear-eyed compassion to every character."—Chloe Benjamin,bestselling author of The Immortalists
What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live?
One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the...