Karen Rivers is the author of many award-winning books for children and teens, including The Girl in the Well Is Me. She lives in Victoria, BC, with her children. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
Part One
Now
Before
Now
Before
Now
Before
Before
Now
Before
Now
Before
Part Two
Soup
Sloane
Soup
Sloane
Soup
Sloane
Soup
Sloane
Sloane
Soup
Sloane
Part Three
Before
Now
Epilogue
Also by Karen Rivers
About the Author
Copyright
The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Columbia Arts Council.
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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Text copyright © 2017 Karen Rivers
All rights reserved
Designed by Aimee Fleck
First hardcover edition, 2018
eBook edition, January 2018
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Rivers, Karen, 1970– author.
Title: All that was: a novel / Karen Rivers.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018. | Summary: While seventeen-year-old Sloane shares a drunken kiss with her best friend Piper’s boyfriend Soup, Piper is murdered on a nearby beach, and over the next few days, Sloane and Soup are left reliving their past moments with Piper, wondering if they are responsible for her death and figuring out how to move on without her.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017011019 (print) | ISBN 9780374302467 (hardcover)
Subjects: | CYAC: Death—Fiction. | Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.R5224 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.R5224 Al 2018 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017011019
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