tailieunhanh - Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors By Michele Young-Stone

BECCAOn a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her—not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mother—not even when her watch kept losing time | An exceptionally rich and sure-handed debut full of complex characters brilliantly described. Boston Globe iaìCHELE ONG-STOnE THE HK OB OK FOR U6HTMIN6 STRIKE SURVIVORS Á Oto Ự-CỄ Purchase a copy of THE HANDBOOK FOR LIGHTNING STRIKE SURVIVORS at one of these retailers THE HANDBOOK An exceptionally rich and sure-handed debut full of complex characters brilliantly described. Bosron B108Í BARNES NOBLE BOOKSELLERS BORDERS. GooqIc books o Q iBooks I__J BROADWAY BOOKS ABOUT THIS GUIDE . . . In order to provide reading groups with the most informed and thought-provoking questions possible it is necessary to reveal important aspects of the plot of this book as well as the ending. If you have not finished reading The Handbook For Lightning Strike Survivors we respectfully suggest that you may want to wait before reviewing this guide. ABOUT THIS BOOK . . . This is the story of Becca Burke and Buckley R. Pitank two lost souls separated by time and place but brought together by fate. While Becca grows up believing in magic and running after her absent philandering father Buckley grows up being beaten into the red clay roads of Arkansas longing for the father he never knew. In a strange twist both are touched by lightning and though they ve never met their lives become intertwined as they try to understand what it means to be singled out by the heavens. Told in alternating threads separated by excerpts from The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors which is authored by one of the main characters this is a hopeful tale that reassures us that even the hardest times are hurdles we must conquer in order to arrive at the place where we belong. ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . A fiction writer since first grade this is Michele Young-Stone s debut novel. A visual artist and lightning strike survivor Michele resides in Richmond Virginia with her husband and son and a community of great friends. QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT . . . 1. How important was Becca s friendship to Carrie Do you

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