Just Do This One Thing for Me by Laura Zimmermann - ISBN: 9780593530344
Paperback
Scammer mom gone, daughter must choose: family or the law.

Just Do This One Thing for Me

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    15 October 2024

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Summary

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and sneakily suspenseful, Just Do This One Thing for Me is a timely novel about a rule-following daughter trying to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears.

“Just do this one thing for me.” Drew’s mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew’s seventeen years, and Drew knows that “one thing” really means all the necessary things her mother thinks are boring, includin…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780593530344
ISBN-10:0593530349
Author:Laura Zimmermann
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:15 October 2024
Weight:289g
Dimensions:210mm x 139mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

“[A] propulsive, heartbreaking account of having to grow up too soon.”—People Magazine

“One of the most humorous, touching novels published this year.“—St. Paul Pioneer Press

“A wild ride.” —Minnesota Public Radio

“A witty, off-beat, and strangely charming look at just how far an eldest child will go to keep their younger siblings together. —School Library Journal

“Drew’s bitingly funny, smart, and deceptively vulnerable voice drives this contemporary fiction offering that delivers madcap comedy, a bit of a mystery, and an engaging family drama…. An often hilarious yet also poignant tale of sibling loyalty.” —Kirkus Reviews

Zimmerman delivers a suspenseful novel about three siblings struggling to stay afloat after their mother’s death. The siblings’ enduring relationship provides a strong through line, while cinematic prose and Drew’s wry first-person voice convey both gruesome and darkly humorous descriptions of the trio’s efforts to stay together.” —Publishers Weekly

An SLJ Best Book of the Year
An Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee
A Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award

About The Author

Laura Zimmermann

Laura Zimmermann is a multiple-time champion of the Twin Cities Moth and Word Sprout story slams, and she was chosen to participate in the 2018 Listen To Your Mother storytelling show. Her debut novel, My Eyes Are Up Here, won the Minnesota Book Award. She lives with her family in Minneapolis, MN.

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