Erin Stewart | The Words We Keep

The Provo Library at Academy Square presents an evening with the author of Scars Like Wings, Erin Stewart, who will discuss her new YA novel, The Words We Keep. Stewart will be in conversation with fellow author Cory Anderson, author of What Beauty There Is.

This free, in-person event will take place in The Attic at The Provo Library at Academy Square and you must reserve a ticket here to participate. Pre-order your copy of The Words We Keep from The King’s English Bookshop by March 8 and receive fun swag and a personalized, autographed book which you may pickup at the Provo Library event.

About the book:

It’s been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor–when Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. Ever since then, Lily has been desperately trying to keep things together, for herself and for her family. But now Alice is coming home from her treatment program and it is becoming harder for Lily to ignore all of the feelings she’s been trying to outrun.

Enter Micah, a new student at school with a past of his own. He was in treatment with Alice and seems determined to get Lily to process not only Alice’s experience, but her own. Because Lily has secrets, too. Compulsions she can’t seem to let go of and thoughts she can’t drown out.

When Lily and Micah embark on an art project for school involving finding poetry in unexpected places, she realizes that it’s the words she’s been swallowing that desperately want to break through.