Why We Broke Up

By Daniel Handler

Book Overview

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened.

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316127264
• ISBN13: 9780316127264
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12

Customer Reviews

Lovely book

read it when I was going through a break up helped me process some of it It sticks with me even now

interesting and cathartic read

written as a letter to the ex boyfriend navigating their relationship that was doomed from the start. the author's stream-of-consciousness writing style can get annoying though.

Eh.

I’m glad I didn’t spend the money for a new copy. This book just wasn’t that great. Some of the sentences didn’t even make sense. Eventually I started skipping the details and went straight for dialogue.