Half a Life (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Darin Strauss: Narrator; telling of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate changed his life dramatically
• Celine Zilke: The 16 year old girl who dies after a collision with Strauss' car.
• Darin Strauss: The Author of "Half A Life Ago" who recounts his car accident that he had as a teen that left a young girl dead and him to deal with the emotional stress and trauma that resulted.
• Mike: Jeff's twin brother who was also in the car at the time of the accident.
• Jeff: Mike's twin brother who was also in the car at the time of the accident.
• Celine Zilke: The sixteen year old girl that swerved across two lanes of traffic into the path of the car that Eighteen year old Darin Strauss was driving. She will forever be sixteen as she died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
• Melanie Urquhart: One of Celine's friends who attends North Shore High.
• Dave: Darin's friend who was in the car at the time.
• Kim: Add a description of this character.
• Jacqueline

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• Tufts College
• North Shore High School
• Zilkes
• Long Island
• West Shore Road

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1. Darin Strauss (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Nobbie Award (2010)
• National Book Critics Circle Award (2010: Autobiography)

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• Dewey: 920

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• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs

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