Susan Pogorzelski

Fifteen-year-old Amelia struggles to shape her own identity while a chronic illness threatens to tear her world apart.

A Novel

The Last Letter

Lilac Sophia Carpenter is sixteen years old. She's going to be sixteen years old for the rest of her life. Confined to her bed as her health declines, Lilac lives her life in daydreams, imagining her love story to her former best friend, Nathan Emery. But Lilac and Nathan haven't talked since that fateful night-the night of her sister's wedding, when her health worsened and his life unraveled and the already-fractured pieces of their friendship became irreparable. With the comfort of her daydreams becoming more and more elusive, Lilac must decide if reality can be greater than her own imagination when there's little time left for living.

Lilac in Winter

It's been almost a decade since the end of the war, when the telegram first arrived at their house on Lennox Lane. Four years since the apartment on Harker Street, where food was scarce and nights were long and their mother slept away her grief.Three months since Janie was forced to leave her little brother, Brayden, and best friend, Leo, behind at Anthers Hall.Two weeks since she stole a bicycle and ran away from the new children's home on the other side of the state.One day since she arrived in Montours City.No one knows her secrets in this small town. If Janie is going to make it back to her brother and the only place she's ever called home, she needs to keep it that way. But when a hard-hearted widow, a boy in a boxcar, and a dog named Panda weave their way into her life, Janie begins to wonder if what she's searching for isn't better off laid to rest.

East of Everywhere

Write one last letter. That's what fifteen-year-old Amelia's psychologist says when she tells him about her time capsule--a My Little Pony lunchbox she's buried in the backyard garden after listening to the preacher on the corner shout about the end of times. One last chance to leave her mark when the world's been shaken to its core by a national tragedy not even the preacher sees coming.One last story of humanity's ability to endure, like in all those historical disasters her mother recites like fairytales.One last reminder of her existence, when her illness has turned her into such a ghost of her former self, one more exhale is all it will take before she disappears completely.One last letter to tell the world how she's lived and who she's loved and what she's trying to survive.

Susan Pogorzelski

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