FRIDAY, JULY 28TH
Kalila and I are going to the party together. Can’t wait! Rosa-Leigh’s brother Joshua is going to be there, and I know this for a FACT because he TOLD Rosa-Leigh to tell me he would be. She says if I really like him then she doesn’t mind, but I don’t know! I like him, I think, but I don’t know if I even want to get involved with anyone right now. Oh, I don’t know.
I’m wearing the silky dress Robin got me, which feels fantastic against my skin. Emily would love this dress. I’d let her borrow it if she were still here. It feels like she is sometimes. Those times are good.
I have to get ready. Kalila will be here in a minute.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you, Lynne, Susan, and Sarah S, for pushing this novel to be what it is now.
Thanks, Kelley Jo Burke and the Saskatchewan Arts Board, for supporting me.
Thank you, Jackie and Natasha, for everything you’ve done for me and for my books.
Thank you, Ellie, Ellen, Jenny, Dad, and Anneke, for reading early drafts.
Thanks, Leona and Jill, for the lunches and writerly conversation.
Thank you, Juliette, just because.
And thank you, Yann, for it all.
About the Author
Alice Kuipers is the author of LIFE ON THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR, which was published in twenty-eight countries and won several awards. She was born and raised in London, England, and now lives in Saskatoon, Canada.
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Credits
Jacket art © 2010 by Joseph Llanes/Getty Images
Jacket design by Alison Klapthor
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
LOST FOR WORDS. Copyright © 2010 by Alice Kuipers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kuipers, Alice.
Lost for words / Alice Kuipers.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Sophie struggles to find normalcy after an incident she chooses not to remember took her sister’s life, and by keeping a journal, making a new friend, and seeing a therapist she finally begins to recover.
ISBN 978-0-06-142922-4
[1. Grief—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Terrorism—Fiction. 7. London (England)—Fiction. 8. Diaries.] I. Title.
PZ7.K9490146Los 2010 2009039673
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
AC
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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