When 12-year-old map-maker T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian, life as normal is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins. T.S. struggles to find a way to map the delicate lessons learned about family and self, and questions whether there is a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, and loneliness in this exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming, and unbearably poignant debut novel.
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ISBN:9780670069750
Physical Description:print 374 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher:Toronto : Hamish Hamilton Canada, c2009.
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