Frannie in Pieces by Delia Ephron

Frannie in Pieces by Delia Ephron

What does you in--brain or heart?

Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe. She discovers an elegant wooden box with an inscription: Frances Anne 1000. Inside, Frannie finds one thousand hand-carved and -painted puzzle pieces. She wonders if her father had a premonition of his death and finished her birthday present early. Feeling broken into pieces herself, Frannie slowly puts the puzzle together. But as she works, something remarkable begins to happen: She is catapulted into a foreign landscape suspended in time where she can discover her father as he was B.F.--before Frannie.

Delia Ephron is a screenwriter and popular author. She is the author of novels such as The Lion Is In and Hanging Up, as well as children's books such as How to Eat Like a Child and Do I Have to Say Hello? You've Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Hanging Up (based on her novel), and Michael are among her films. Her work has featured in publications such as The New York Times, O, Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Her hit off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore (co-written with Nora Ephron) ran for nearly two years and has been seen all over the world. She currently resides in New York City.