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AUTHOR: Amy Rose Capetta
PUBLISHER: Candlewick Press
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 2017
PAGES: 432
ISBN: 9780763691646
Echo After Echo
by Amy Rose Capetta
Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared—for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; and for death in the theater.
Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it’s easy to say yes. But it’s hard not to be distracted when there’s a death at the theater—and then another—especially when Zara doesn’t know if they’re accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes. It’s hard not to be distracted when assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara. It’s hard not to fall in love. In heart-achingly beautiful prose, Amy Rose Capetta has spun a mystery and a love story into an impossible, inevitable whole—and cast lantern light on two girls, finding each other on a stage set for tragedy.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
A main character (Zara) identifies as bisexual.
TROPES
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SUGGEST A TROPE:
QUOTES
“She doesn’t really say it to Adrian — she says it to the ceiling. “I’m bisexual.”
Adrian feels like something just went right between the two of them. Finally. “Did that feel good?”
“It made me so nervous,” Zara says. She mutters, “There are bigger things to be nervous about right now.”
Amy Rose Capetta, “Echo After Echo”