Binding: Paperback
Description: A heartbreaking debut Y a romance featuring a neuroatypical girl with a tragic history and the chronically ill boy trying to break the vault encasing her heart. Alvie Fitz doesn t fit in and she doesn t care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps she ll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails she ll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home. All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend Chance the one - winged hawk at the zoo where she works. She can bide her time with him until her emancipation. Humans are overrated anyway. Then she meets Stanley a boy who might be even stranger than she is a boy who walks with a cane who turns up every day with a new injury whose body seems as fragile as glass. Without even meaning to she finds herself getting close to him. But Alvie remembers what happened to the last person she truly cared about. Her past stalks her with every step and it has sharp teeth. But if she can find the strength to face the enemy inside her maybe she ll have a chance at happiness after all.
Title: When My Heart Joins The Thousand
Author(s): Steiger A. J.
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062656483
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/27/2021