Hope and other punchlines
Buxbaum, Julie
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Abbi Hope Goldstein has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11: in an iconic photograph
Abbi wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her
the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing. Now her alter ego
Baby Hope
is the subject of internet memes
and Abbi is desperate for anonymity. Spending the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp
she's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds
none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope. Too bad Noah Stern
whose own world was shattered on that terrible day
has a similar summer plan. When the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo
is either of them ready to hear the answers?
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