Grace Salmon has a job that most people would not want – she arranges funerals and the handles the minute details that go into giving people a last chance to say goodbye to their loved one. Each sibling holds a piece to the secret of what happened, but they won’t discover the truth until they each share what they know about the night Amanda died.
They must find out what happened to Amanda in order to settle the estate, which puts the siblings in a quandary. With the sudden death of their parents, the six MacAllister siblings are left with a will. No one knows who bludgeoned the girl and left her body in a rowboat at the MacAllister’s camp. The death of Amanda Holmes 20 years ago at Camp Macaw had never been solved. When the secrets and lies of these three come to the surface over the course of the summer, it will be up to them to figure out their values, wants and desires. Mother and wife Lu is struggling with the fact that she agreed with her husband to raise their children while he worked, and she is missing her job in corporate law. Anthony Puckett is recovering from his fall from grace as an author, while café owner Joy is battling the arrival of a food truck in town who is wreaking havoc on her business.
When three strangers meet on Block Island for a summer of recovery and solitude, it will turn into something none of them anticipated. Jennifer Weiner weaves history and fiction in this ambitious long-awaited novel about two sisters and their quest for happiness.
But is truth always as it is imagined? Through the decades of free love, Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s liberation, we follow the lives of these two very different sisters as they search for their happily ever after. Jo and Bethie grew up in Detroit in the 1950s, in a seemingly pleasant and perfect environment. What’s better than settling in poolside with a great book by a fabulous female author? Not much! Here we have selected some must-reads books of summer by women that you’ll love.
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