TY  - BOOK
AU  - Purcell,Kim
TI  - This is not a love letter
SN  - 9781484798348
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - Hyperion
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Loss (Psychology)
KW  - Interracial dating
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - High school students
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Young adult fiction
N2  - Follows small town girl Jessie as she deals with first love and loss; When Jessie's boyfriend, Chris, disappears right before graduation, she presses the police to investigate, fearing that Chris--who is black--has been targeted for violence; Jessie and Chris are taking a one-week break to get some perspective before graduation and the big, scary decisions about their future. Then, Chris vanishes; the police think he's run away. He was about to head off to college on a full-ride baseball scholarship. And he disappeared on a run along the river-- where some boys from the rival high school beat him up just three weeks ago. As Jessie searches for answers, she must face her fears, her guilt, and a past more complicated than she would like to admit
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