I
am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the WIDER THAN THE SKY by Katherine
Rothschild Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar
Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to
enter the giveaway!
About
The Book:
Author: Katherine Rothschild
Paperback Pub. Date: December
7, 2021
Publisher: Soho Teen
Formats: Hardcover,
Paperback, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 288
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org
In
the wake of sudden tragedy, twin sisters uncover a secret that rips open their
world. Katherine Rothschild explores the pain and power of forgiveness in a
stunning debut novel that will shatter your heart and piece it back together,
one truth at a time.
Sixteen-year-old Sabine Braxton doesn’t have much in common with her identical
twin, Blythe. When their father dies from an unexpected illness, each copes
with the loss in her own way—Sabine by “poeting” (an uncontrollable quirk of
bursting into poetry at inappropriate moments) and Blythe by obsessing over
getting into MIT, their father’s alma mater. Neither can offer each other much
support . . . at least not until their emotionally detached mother moves them
into a ramshackle Bay Area mansion owned by a stranger named Charlie.
Soon, the sisters unite in a mission to figure out who Charlie is and why he
seems to know everything about them. They make a life-changing discovery: their
parents were hiding secrets about their sexual identities. The revelation
unravels Sabine’s world, while practical Blythe seems to take everything in
stride. Once again at odds with her sister, Sabine chooses to learn all
she can about the father she never knew. Ultimately, she must decide if she can
embrace his last wish for a family legacy--even if it means accepting a new
idea of what it means to be a family.
Praise for Wider than the Sky
“Sabine’s struggle to reconcile her memory of her father with the man he really
was—and to make room in her life for his hopes as well as her own—cuts to the
heart of what it means to love someone unconditionally. Wider than the
Sky skillfully weaves multiple character arcs together to examine the
ideas of home, hope, and family in surprising new ways.”—Misa Sugiura, It's
Not Like It's a Secret
"Lyrical and lovely, Wider than the Sky is one of those
rare books that has everything—masterful storytelling, a great love story,
important themes, razor-sharp wit, and memorable characters. It's a gorgeous
debut that will capture your heart."—Corina Vacco, Delacorte
Prize–winning author of My Chemical Mountain
“I haven’t stopped thinking about these sisters since I first read Wider
than the Sky. Sabine and Blythe will leap off the page and live in your
memories like old friends. There is so much heart and humor in Katherine’s
writing; even as her characters grapple with serious concerns and issues, she
captures how life can slice us open and yet give us the ability to laugh and
love and hope through the deepest pain and loss.”—Jennifer Chambliss
Bertman, New York Times bestselling author of Book
Scavenger
“Rothschild’s story showcases how secrets impede a person’s ability to see the
world clearly and that self-acceptance and honesty are the keys to a happy
ending.”—School Library Journal
“Change comes suddenly to the lives of 16-year-old Sabine and her identical
twin sister, Blythe, when their father dies unexpectedly, prompting their
mother and a strange man named Charlie to move the girls to the small town of
Thornewood . . . Rothschild’s first novel is accomplished and nicely plot-rich
with some interesting quirks, chief among them being Sabine’s deep-rooted love
for Emily Dickinson’s poetry and her compulsive need to recite it.”—Booklist
“Kath Rothschild’s Wider than the Sky is pitch perfect! Young
adult readers will fall in love with her wonderfully quirky narrator Sabine and
her swoony romance with Kai. Combine that with family secrets and a mysterious
stranger and you have the ingredients for a compelling read. I cannot wait to
put it in the hands of my young customers!”—Kathleen Caldwell, A Great Good
Place for Books (Oakland, CA)
Excerpt:
Wider than the Sky by Katherine Rothschild
Chapter One:
Hope and Other Feathered Things
You know how
you can read a poem, like, ten times and still not get it?
Teachers
say: just read it again because something magic happens and suddenly you’ll get
it. Well, the day my dad died I totally understood this Emily Dickinson poem
called “‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers.” Not like the understanding helped.
Poems can’t bring people back to life. But suddenly getting poetry was a weird
little gift that got me through what happened next.
On that day,
my sister, Blythe, and I stumbled into a windowless, overly air-conditioned
room in Huntington Hospital. Inside we found a doctor, my cashmere-sweatered
mom, and a cluster of silent machines. And my dad’s dead body. No one said he
was dead—no one had to. The space his soul had taken up in the room had
vanished.
The doctor
unhooked one more monitor and put her hand way too casually on my dad’s dead
leg. “Take as much time as you need.”
Like time
was what we needed.
When the
doctor was gone, my mom reached for us and we ran to her like we’d survived a
plane crash or something. Which I guess we kind of had. We were surviving this
empty room, weathering it the way our bikes did the ocean air, oxidizing and
cracking—and crying. There were tears, teary questions, and more tears. When we
finally stepped back to wipe our noses, the air filled with the silence only
hospitals can achieve: a bustle and racket in the outside, but in here? No more
beeping. I felt a stone in my heart, round and cold, sharp against my sternum.
Then someone
cleared his throat. A man stood in the doorway. For a blink of mind-time I was
sure it was my dad. He couldn’t be dead. He had barely even been sick. He was
fine. He was right there.
About Katherine Rothschild:
Katherine
Rothschild is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford
University, a former ballet and Arabic dance instructor, and an obsessive
Twitter food truck-follower. Her first-person essays have been published on
KQED/NPR, in The San Francisco Chronicle, and other Bay Area and California
publications. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing, a PhD in Composition and
Applied Linguistics, has received artist’s grants from Vermont Studio Center
and Kindlings West, and is a longtime member of the SCBWI. She lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area with her family. Her debut novel is Wider Than the
Sky from Soho Teen. Find her on Twitter @Kath_Rothschild.
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Giveaway
Details:
3
winners will win a hardcover copy of WIDER THAN THE SKY, US Only.
3
winners will win a paperback copy of WIDER THAN THE SKY, US Only.
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