Cora is intrigued, but both girls are so weighted down with grief, anger, guilt, and regrets that it’s difficult for them to reconnect. Cora has the scientific curiosity and perseverance Quinn needs to make her idea a reality, so she reaches out with an unusual gift for Cora’s twelfth birthday.
She’s been researching time travel, and has some ideas for finding a wormhole that can take them back in time to save their siblings. The two girls haven’t spoken since, but as the new school year begins, Quinn needs to talk to Cora. On November 11, almost a year ago, Quinn’s brother Parker went to school with a gun and killed four people, including Cora’s older sister Mabel and himself. The Shape of Thunder is a deeply moving story, told with exceptional grace, about friendship and loss-and how believing in impossible things can help us heal.Summary: Cora and Quinn used to be best friends. But as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves. And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever-and stop him. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note.
Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor-winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing-and how friendship can be magical.Ĭora hasn't spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.ĭespite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief.
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