Sara Zarr





Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr is the acclaimed author of four novels for young adults: Story of a Girl (National Book Award Finalist), Sweethearts (Cybil Award Finalist), Once Was Lost (a Kirkus Best Book of 2009) and How to Save a Life. Her short fiction and essays have also appeared in Image, Hunger Mountain, and several anthologies. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, and online at www.sarazarr.com


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I’m on the road, with only my iPad and phone! For two weeks! It’s the longest I’ve been without a full laptop in a long time. The WordPress dashboard is being problematic in numerous ways. And traveling with iDevices definitely lends itself more to the quick, easy, and clean bursts through interfaces designed with mobility in mind.


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Average rating: 3.72 · 30,947 ratings · 4,704 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors
Sweethearts
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 9,246 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
Story of a Girl
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 8,213 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
How to Save a Life
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 5,446 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
Once Was Lost
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,785 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
The Lucy Variations
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions
Roomies
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2013
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 4,867 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2008
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“. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.”
Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

“When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”
Sara Zarr

“Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. ”
Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl

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