Paperback.Pub Date:2004-09-01 Pages:396 Language: Publisher:Harcourt Paperbacks Carnegie Medal Winner. United KingdomLos Angeles Times Book Prize WinnerBorders 2004 Original Voices Award WinnerNamed a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly. Booklist. School Library Journal. The Irish Times. The Times (London). The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money. she takes a job at the Glenmore. where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Graces drowned body is fished from the lake. Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreisers An American Tragedy. Jennifer Donnellys astonishing debut novel effortlessly wea...