The Impossible Knife of Memory

By Laurie Halse Anderson

Subjects: Veterans, Family problems, Family life, fiction, Fathers and daughters, Large type books, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Mental illness, fiction

Description: For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in town where he grew up so Hayley can go to a proper school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy's PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over?