Ebook {Epub PDF} Close Your Eyes Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

 · A story of loss, adventure, and the search for friendship in the wake of catastrophe, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is one of Chris Bohjalian’s finest novels to date—breathtaking, wise, and utterly transporting. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more/5(). "I have a new favorite Chris Bohjalian novel. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is a book I wish I'd been smart enough to write: a masterpiece of narrative voice, of emotion, and of how--as Emily Dickinson might say--the sparest of words can hold a wealth of pain. If you need any proof that fiction can scare us, move us, and break our hearts simultaneously--look no further."/5(). Posted on May 3, J by Chris Bohjalian. Greetings. As many of you know, CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS, my new novel, arrives in a little more than two months — on July 8, And some of you have probably read about the novel on-line, and learned a little more.

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward: Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen: Dont Close Your Eyes by Holly Seddon: Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham: Hold On, But Dont Hold Still by Kristina Kuzmic: Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian: The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian: Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian. By Chris Bohjalian About This Guide The questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion of Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, Chris Bohjalian's gripping new novel about a teenage runaway fighting for her life and her dreams in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster.

In CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS, author Chris Bohjalian has created an amazing portrait of a teen in crisis. After being orphaned by a nuclear disaster for which her father may have been responsible, Emily sets off on the run. She needs a protector, a family, an adult. Praise for Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Boston Globe Pick of the Week "I have a new favorite Chris Bohjalian novel. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is a book I wish I'd been smart enough to write: a masterpiece of narrative voice, of emotion, and of how – as Emily Dickinson might say – the sparest of words can hold a wealth of pain. If you need any proof that fiction can scare us, move us, and break our hearts simultaneously – look no further.". At once mesmerizing and insightful, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is a fresh take on typical Bohjalian fare, a novel for the ages that shows great depth and fictional flexibility. Yet again, Bohjalian creates a story that reminds us just how fragile life is and how powerful relationships can be when set against the backdrop of struggle.