Cora and Quinn were best friends forever, but they haven't spoken to each other in almost a year. Cora knows it's difficult to be friends with the person whose brother shot and killed her sister. Quinn knows it's difficult living with the knowledge that her brother became a person she didn't recognize when he shot and killed people at his school.
Both girls are living with their own feelings of guilt. Cora misses Mabel and deeply regrets an argument they had the day Mabel was shot. Quinn misses Parker, but is filled with guilt as she remembers seeing her brother opening their father's gun safe a few days before her killed four people and then himself. She tries to deal with her emotions by writing Parker letters she knows he will never read.
On Cora's birthday she finds a box from Quinn. When she finally gets passed her anger and opens it, she discovers articles about time travel, a topic that used to fascinate the girls when they were younger. Quinn stops Cora in school to talk about the box's contents and suggests that there may be a way to go back in time to stop Parker and save Mabel.
An uneasy friendship reforms as the two girls try to right the wrong they both feel responsible for. This new journey might help them confront their pain and find ways to live with the tragedy and carry on.
Author Jasmine Warga deals with love and loss after an unexplainably tragic event. THE SHAPE OF THUNDER will draw readers into the world of Cora and Quinn and keep them thinking long after the last page.
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