A Year and a Day by Leslie Pietrzyk
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Overview: Three days after her mother commits suicide, 15-year-old Alice begins to hear her voice. Giving Alice advice on everything from how to make pancakes to how to apply eyeliner, her mother also imparts some surprising information about her past–how she met Alice’s father and why she left him. Alice pumps her eccentric, distracted aunt Aggy for more information and cross-examines her older brother about their absent father, struggling to integrate what she learns. She begins an exciting new relationship with bad boy Joe Fry, the only person who is unafraid to speak openly and honestly about her loss. Pietrzyk’s sprawling second novel, following Pears on a Willow Tree (1998), gets a few things right, especially small-town teen girls in the seventies and their obsession with makeup, Ouija boards, and boys. Unfortunately, her mother’s voice quickly comes to seem like an obvious and labored plot device. Still, there’s humor here and a likable protagonist in Alice, who is not afraid to look for answers to some of life’s biggest questions. 
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