Love Is the Higher Law

Love Is the Higher Law

<b>Bestselling author David Levithan (<i>Every Day</i>; <i>Boy Meets Boy</i>; <i>Will Grayson, Will Grayson</i> with John Green) treats the tragic events of September 11th with care and compassion in this novel of loss and grief, but also of hope and redemption.</b><br> <i> </i><br> <i>First there is a Before, and then there is an After. . . .</i><br><br> The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him.<br><br> Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event. As each gets to know the other, their moments become wound around each other’s in a way that leads to new understandings, new friendships, and new levels of awareness for the world around them and the people close by.<br><br> David Levithan has written a novel of loss and grief, but also one of hope and redemption aAs histhe characters slowly learn to move forward in their lives, despite being changed forever, one rule remains: love is indeed the higher law.<br>  <br> A MARGARET A. EDWARDS AWARD WINNER