In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called it, “pitch-perfect…Prescient writing, fully developed characters and completely, tragically believable situations elevate this sad, gripping tale to a must-read level. Jo’s new book, SEE YOU AT HARRY’S, comes out today. In case you can’t tell, I’m a big fan of hers, and not just because she makes a mean chocolate chip scone.
She’s also been writing beautiful, quietly powerful books, which are testaments to humanity in all its flawed, impossible, hopeful glory. In her career, Jo has faced down book banners and fought for intellectual freedom. (She’d get that hat back without ever throwing a punch.) Then later, she’d bust out a poem in English class that had everybody going, “Whoa.”
the story funnels family oddities, secrets, and personal melodrama into eventual respect for family differences.If life were a teen movie, Jo Knowles would be the kind, smart, somewhat shy girl in the back row who offers the new kid half of her sandwich at lunch, then stands up to the bullies who try to take his hat. Knowles has perfectly told an intriguing story of dysfunctional characters who cannot, will not, or are unable to communicate because of fear.fear of learning the truth, fear of hurting others, fear of losing love., "Knowles has perfectly told an intriguing story of dysfunctional characters who cannot, will not, or are unable to communicate because of fear.fear of learning the truth, fear of hurting others, fear of losing love." - VOYA ".the story funnels family oddities, secrets, and personal melodrama into eventual respect for family differences." - School Library Journal, "Knowles has perfectly told an intriguing story of dysfunctional characters who cannot, will not, or are unable to communicate because of fear.fear of learning the truth, fear of hurting others, fear of losing love." - VOYA "…the story funnels family oddities, secrets, and personal melodrama into eventual respect for family differences."- School Library Journal.
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