A Year to the Day

National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway returns with an ambitious I''ll Give You the Sun meets Every Da y story of love, loss, and sisterhood told in a reverse chronological narrative. A Year to the Day will claim a permanent home in your heart. It''s been a year--a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones--holidays, birthdays, everything without her. Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina''s boyfriend, East. East, who once promised Nina he''d watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won''t give Leo the one thing she wants--the one thing she needs. He won''t tell her anything about the accident. He won''t talk about that night at all. As the days tumble one into the next, Leo''s story comes together while her world falls apart. The only constant is the one person who can help her bear the enormous weight of her love for Nina--and East might be carrying too heavy a load of his own.

“Readers will appreciate the explorations of family, stigma, and vulnerability. Benway is looking to follow in the Caroline Cooney footsteps of smart, realism-grounded stories.”

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Robin Benway is a National Book Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, which have been published in more than 25 countries. Her nonfiction work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Bustle, Elle, and more. Benway attended NYU, is a graduate of UCLA, and lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Marnie Chicken.

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National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Robin Benway returns with a story of love, loss, and sisterhood reminiscent of I’ll Give You the Sun and Every Day. Told in reverse chronological order, A Year to the Day will claim a permanent home in your heart.

IT’S BEEN A YEAR—A YEAR OF MISSING NINA

Leo can’t remember what happened the night of the accident. All she knows is that she left the party with her older sister, Nina, and Nina’s boyfriend, East. And now Nina is dead, killed by a drunk driver and leaving Leo with a hole inside her that’s impossible to fill.

East, who loved Nina almost as much as Leo did, is the person who seems to most understand how she feels, and the two form a friendship based on their shared grief. But as she struggles to remember what happened, Leo discovers that East remembers every detail of the accident—and he won’t tell her anything about it. In fact, he refuses to talk about that night at all.

As the days tumble one into the next, Leo’s story comes together while her world falls apart. How can she move on if she never knows what really happened that night? And is happiness even possible in a world without Nina?