She’s ready for a vacation at her happy place-the Maine cottage she and her friends visit every summer. So they keep it a secret from their friends and families-in fact, Harriet barely even admits it to herself, focusing instead on her grueling hours as a surgical resident. They’ve been part of the same boisterous friend group since college, and they know that their breakup will devastate the others and make things more than a little awkward. Wyn Connor and Harriet Kilpatrick were the perfect couple-until Wyn dumped Harriet for reasons she still doesn’t fully understand. Hoover spends a lot of time dissecting class prejudices against a gossamer backdrop of summer love that evolves to become much more.Ī thoughtful exploration of how poverty impacts people's choices and blurs the lines between good and bad behavior.Įxes pretend they’re still together for the sake of their friends on their annual summer vacation. This is the story of a summer love affair as Beyah and Samson get to know one another, sharing their darkest secrets until Samson’s past catches up with him. Pegging the guy as a rich douchebag, Beyah soon realizes there's more to him that he lets on and that despite his purported wealth he is just as damaged as her. Once Beyah settles in, Sara and her boyfriend, Marcos, begin trying to set her up with their friend Samson.

When she arrives, she discovers that Alana, her father’s wife of a year, has a daughter named Sara who's just a little older than Beyah and a summer house on the beach on Bolivar Peninsula, where Beyah and her father head straight from the airport. So when she's quickly evicted from the trailer she and her mother shared, she calls her father he books her a ticket on the earliest possible flight to Houston.

She's vowed never to become like her mother, and volleyball is her way out-all she needs is a place to stay for two months until her full ride to Penn State begins on Aug. She taught herself to use a stove at age 6 and did whatever was necessary throughout her life to make sure there was food on the table.

All the child support money sent by her father has been spent on her mother’s addictions. A 19-year-old Kentucky girl-the product of a one-night stand-finds her addict mother dead and ends up spending the summer in Texas with her father and his family.Īfter a lifetime of active neglect from her mother, Beyah Grim comes home one day from her shift at McDonald’s to find her dead on the sofa, needle still in her arm.

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