Four for the Road
K.J. Reilly
Four for the Road
K. J. Reilly
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
An unlikely group of friends, three teens and one senior citizen, all dealing with loss embark on a road trip to Graceland. Each has their own agenda and is looking for ways besides their therapy group to help ease their pain. What transpires is a hilarious and touching story of people finding their way through grief with the help of each other.
Content Warnings: Death of a parent, Alcoholism
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This novel would work well in a Psychology class. The way it explores several different reactions to grief would make for good case studies.
K.J. Reilly
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https://kjreillyauthor.com/
K.J. Reilly graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in psychology, then moved to NYC to work on Madison Avenue in the marketing research department of one of the largest advertising agencies in the world. Since advertising involves figuring out how to put the right words together to convince people to buy things, and writing books involves figuring out how to put the right words together to make people feel better or learn something or laugh or think or be happy, she decided to leave advertising to write books instead. It was the right choice.
Reilly loves reading and writing, dogs and bunnies, sailboats, cycling, baking, gardening, children of all shapes and sizes, and blueberries. When she's not writing or reading, she's usually digging in the dirt to grow flowers and food, or riding her bike way too far and way too fast!
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