Wonder When You'll Miss Me

by Amanda Davis

Book Overview

At fifteen, Faith Duckle was lured under the bleachers by a bunch of boys and brutally attacked. Now, almost a year later, a newly thin Faith is haunted by her past and by the flippant, cruel ghost of her formerly fat self who is bent on revenge.

Faith eventually turns to violence for retribution, forcing her to flee home in search of the only friend she has -- a troubled but caring busboy who is the lover of a sideshow performer -- and to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060534265
• ISBN13: 9780060534264
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

You won't put it down

This book spoke to me on so many different levels. It explores mental health, death, drugs, friendship, love, and the circus. I would recommend it to everyone! The author's character descriptions are amazing, that's what hooked me. You will feel like you've known Faith aka Annabelle your whole life.

Don't Miss "Wonder When You'll Miss Me"

In this brave and honest novel, Amanda Davis exposes the underbelly of the all-American obsession with popularity. Faith Buckle, overweight and lacking in high-school popularity, pays a horrible price for that crime; this will eventually land her in the circus. In less sure hands, this material could devolve into the land of 'just another American girl interrupted story.' But that's not what happens here. Ms. Davis's work is so consistently sensitive, funny, sad and occasionally horrifying - always nailing the appropriate emotional mark - that readers will read this book rooting for its unusual heroine, while at the same time rooting for the author to write more books.

From Bookreporter.com

"Davis has created a lucid, compelling page-turner that defies categorization. This is a stunning novel and Faith's story is uncomfortably tragic, brutally honest and beautifully rendered. It is about pain and rebirth and the reality behind all illusions. WONDER WHEN YOU'LL MISS ME is, quite simply, a great novel." --- Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman

A pageturner with real heart.

This is the sort of book you can get lost in - a great story, told very well, with fully fleshed-out characters and moment after moment of heartbreaking grandeur.

One of my favorite books EVER

I am astonished at the quality of Amanda Davis's prose. I'm overwhelmed by the at once harrowing and compelling story. I'm so excited that I found this young writer at the beginning of what is destined to be a remarkable career.You can read the PW excerpt for the plot summary. What I want to tell you is that you must buy this book.