Love Is the Higher Law

First there is a Before and then there is an After. . . . The lives of threeteensClaire Jasper and Peterare altered forever on September 11 2001.Claire a high s... » 

First there is a Before and then there is an After. . . . The lives of threeteensClaire Jasper and Peterare altered forever on September 11 2001.Claire a high school junior has to get to her younger brother in hisclassroom. Jasper a college sophomore from Brooklyn wakes to his parentsfrantic calls from Korea wondering if hes okay. Peter a classmate ofClaires has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him.Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophicevent. As each gets to know the other their moments become wound around eachothers in a way that leads to new understandings new friendships and newlevels of awareness for the world around them and the people close by. DavidLevithan has written a novel of loss and grief but also one of hope andredemption as his characters slowly learn to move forward in their livesdespite being changed forever. «