Cover of The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope

The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope

"In adolescence we feel our losses as if for the first time, with a greater depth of pain and drama than we are aware of having experienced ever before,"says James Howe in his introduction to this stunning collection of short stories in which some of today's most celebrated authors of fiction for young adults explore the many faces of loss - the common thread they share and the hope that is born through change.

Read more

You're Not a Winner Unless Your Picture's in the Paper* Avi

Red Seven* C.b. Christiansen

Enchanted Night* James Howe

Atomic Blue Pieces* Angela Johnson

Summer of Love* Annette Curtis Klause

The Tin Butterfly* Norma Fox Mazer

Season's End* Walter Dean Myers

Shoofly Pie* Naomi Shihab Nye

The Fire Pond* Michael J. rosen

What Are You Good At?* Roderick Townley

Chair* Virginia Euwer Wolff

The Rialto* Jacqueline Woodson and Chris Lynch

Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Destination Unexpected: Short Stories Shares short stories, young adult, anthology
  2. Shelf Life: Stories by the Book Shares short stories, young adult, anthology
  3. What Are You Afraid Of?: Stories about Phobias Shares short stories, young adult, anthology
  4. Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories About Beauty Shares short stories, young adult, anthology

“People who read The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit
  2. Tallulah Falls
  3. Love & Profanity
  4. Hello, I Must Be Going

“If you want more of the same (literary fiction), start with these.”

  1. Pieces: A Collection of New Voices
  2. Palo Alto
  3. Small Avalanches and Other Stories
  4. There Is No Long Distance Now

“If it was the short stories that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Oxford Book of Short Stories
  2. From the Cradle to the Grave
  3. Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists
  4. The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction
  2. The Carousel
  3. Sing Me Your Scars
  4. Good Grief: Healing Through the Shadow of Loss