The Chance You Wont Return, Annie Cardi
The Chance You Wont Return, Annie Cardi
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The Chance You Won't Return

Author: Annie Cardi

Narrator: Jessica Lauren Ball

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/22/2014

Synopsis

When your mom thinks she’s Amelia Earhart, navigating high school, first love, and family secrets is like flying solo without a map.Driver’s ed and a first crush should be what Alex Winchester is stressed out about in high school—and she is. But what’s really on her mind is her mother. Why is she dressing in Dad’s baggy khaki pants with a silk scarf around her neck? What is she planning when she pores over maps in the middle of the night? When did she stop being Mom and start being Amelia Earhart?Alex tries to keep her budding love life apart from the growing disaster at home as her mother sinks further into her delusions. But there are those nights, when everyone else is asleep, when it’s easier to confide in Amelia than it ever was to Mom. Now, as Amelia’s flight plans become more intense, Alex is increasingly worried that Amelia is planning her final flight—the flight from which she never returns. What could possibly be driving Mom’s delusions, and how far will they take her?

About Annie Cardi

Annie Cardi holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Her short stories have appeared in the Georgetown Review, Vestal Review, and other publications. In 2011, PEN New England selected her as a winner of the Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award for the manuscript that would become The Chance You Won’t Return, her debut novel, about which she says, “I was spending the summer in Chicago with my now husband when the sentence ‘My mother thinks she’s Amelia Earhart’ popped into my head. I wondered who this person could be and what her home life would be like. At first I thought the sentence would turn into a short story, which was largely what I was writing at the time, but it quickly became evident that Alex’s story needed to be longer.” Annie Cardi’s writing is fueled by copious amounts of coffee and chocolate. She lives near Boston with her husband and a portrait of a sea captain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on May 19, 2014

Some people think YA literature only involves vampires or crumbling future dystopias full of factions and battles to the death. Others dismiss it as being for kids. Most prevalent, perhaps, is the notion that fiction written about teenagers is juvenile; that the characters aren't fully formed yet, a......more

Goodreads review by Jessica L. on July 03, 2019

This book is lovely and heartbreaking, with characters that feel incredibly layered and real. It is a take on mental illness that I've never seen before and it was handled with such specificity and care.......more

Goodreads review by Joe on May 15, 2014

When you look back at the memories of the hardest times of your childhood, you tend to be very careful, thinking through every angle of the incidents and accidents that ended up defining who you are. This novel does the same thing, crawling through one girl's anguish over her mother's mental illness......more

Goodreads review by Rhiannon on October 24, 2016

If your mother had just one day merely thought that she was Amelia Earhart, what would you do? For Alex Winchester, it was beyond confusing and aggravating. It was undeniable that she was already unsteady with the pent-up emotions that she had dealing with, and not to mention a high school crush, bu......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie Marie on July 26, 2014

5 Reasons Why This Book Rocked: 1. Annie took some pretty stereotypical YA topics-- high school drama, relationships, kids vs parents-- and took them to an entirely new level by throwing some very serious issues into the mix. Every teen girl has ebbs and flows with their mother-- Are we friends? Can......more

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