Playlist for the Dead

Michelle Falkoff

HarperTeen

2015

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780062310507

Part mystery, part love story, and part coming-of-age tale in the vein of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Spectacular Now.

There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, Sam's best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he left Sam was a playlist of songs and a suicide note: For Sam—listen and you'll understand. To figure out what happened, Sam has to rely on the playlist and his own memory. But the more he listens, the more he realizes that his memory isn't as reliable as he thought. And it might only be by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him that he'll finally be able to piece together his best friend's story. And maybe have a chance to change his own.

Playlist for the Dead is an honest and gut-wrenching first novel about loss, rage, what it feels like to outgrow a friendship that's always defined you—and the struggle to redefine yourself. But above all, it's about finding hope when hope seems like the hardest thing to find

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A importância de ouvir as pessoas.

A história me lembrou bastante a temática de 'Os 13 porquês', e apesar de não achar tão bom quanto, ainda há pontos que se sobressaem. A leitura é bem fluida e embora traga assuntos como suicídio e bullying, o livro não se resume a isso. A história contará a forma que Sam irá viver após o suicídio do seu melhor amigo Hayden - ambos são os "nerds/geeks" da escola e não têm amigos -, tentando descobrir o que levou ao ocorrido através de uma playlist deixada para ele com músicas escolhidas intencionalmente, enquanto se envolve em novos relacionamentos e experiências. É uma história para refletir que realmente devemos ouvir mais as pessoas e que não sabemos tudo que as pessoas passam, até mesmo as mais próximas.