15-year-old Tess Denunzio knows all too well that tragedy has a devastating way of changing all who experience it. Tess tries to make sense of her guilt and a new existence touched by grief in this heartbreakingly beautiful letter to her three-year-old sister, Zoe.

Tess Denunzio was an ordinary 15-year-old girl navigating high school and finding her place in a blended family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But when Tess’s little sister dies in a hit-and-run accident, her life and those around her are transformed overnight. Tess is left to grapple with adolescence, a grieving family, feeling out of place and guilt over her sister’s death that soon becomes overwhelming. As a way of coping and making sense of her new life, Tess begins to write to her half-sister Zoe as she navigates the painful yet beautiful realities of moving on, growing up, and falling in love.

In his first novel Dear Zoe, writer Philip Beard captures the complicated and nuanced world of adolescence in heart-wrenchingly realistic ways. Along the same veins as The Lovely Bones, Dear Zoe takes listeners on a psychological journey through a young adult’s mind navigating tragedy, healing and growing up in ways that will leave a mark long after its conclusion. This unabridged audiobook is movingly narrated by Cassandra Morris, who further brings Tess and her story to life. Many Audible listeners have commended this beautiful and deeply moving story for helping them cope with losing a loved one.

Dear Zoe has been adapted for the screen in a moving film starring Sadie Sink of Stranger Things. Capturing the complicated aftermath of loss for young people, Dear Zoe is one story and message everyone will be left better for hearing.