Vermont author Rebecca Rupp takes us inside a transformative summer for Danny Anderson, when he makes a set of new friends who help him overcome his grief in the novel After Eli . Danny was 11 years old when his brother Eli was killed during the war in Iraq. With his parents lost in their own grief, Danny devises a way of trying to make sense of his brother's death. He creates a Book of the Dead, chronicling and categorizing the deaths of people throughout history. It isn't until Isabelle and