Wishing Season, Anica Mrose Rissi
Wishing Season, Anica Mrose Rissi
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Wishing Season

Author: Anica Mrose Rissi

Narrator: Hope Newhouse

Unabridged: 4 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2023


Synopsis

A moving middle grade story by Anica Mrose Rissi that will appeal to readers who loved The Thing about Jellyfish and Hello, Universe, about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn’t quite gone—and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him.Of course Anders wasn’t lonely in the afterlife. He still, like always, had Lily.Lily doesn’t believe in making wishes. Not anymore. Not since Anders died.Wishes can’t fix the terrible thing that happened. Wishing won’t change how it feels.But Lily does believe in the impossible. She has a secret so extraordinary, so magical, no one would believe that it’s true.No one except Anders, of course.Nothing about this summer is turning out how Lily would have wished. But wishes, like seasons, can change.

About Anica Mrose Rissi

Anica Mrose Rissi  is the author of Always Forever Maybe and Nobody Knows But You, along with several books for younger readers. She lives in Princeton, NJ, and Deer Isle, ME. Visit her online at www.anicarissi.com,


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anica on July 01, 2023

I typed the first pieces of the idea for Wishing Season into my phone on a train home from NYC at 10:21pm on September 22, 2016, but the story didn’t start there. It pulls from so much of who I am and have been—things I’ve been thinking, feeling, noticing, wondering, caring about—for decades. In Trav......more

Goodreads review by Sophia on May 12, 2025

I haven’t cried this much over a book in a long time. A very heart wrenching yet hopeful story about grief and finding a way through it. Made me think a little bit of Bridge to Terabethia.......more

Goodreads review by Mrs on August 24, 2023

4.5 rounded up to 5......more

Goodreads review by Dan on November 28, 2023

This book is a map and a guidebook, not only of a pathway through grief and loss, but also a kind of compass that points to the power of what stories-and imagination, and yes, wishes too-can do. I loved it with my whole heart.......more

Goodreads review by Richie on December 28, 2023

Richie’s Picks: WISHING SEASON by Anica Mrose Rissi, HarperCollins/Quill Tree, June 2023, 240p., ISBN: 978-0-06-325890-7 “I was born this very morning And my brother he was also born, In our first nine months we learned to speak And we have been listening since early morn. I love no one but my brother Who......more