**For fans of Nina LaCour and _The Spectacular Now_ , a powerful coming-of-age story about a girl with creative aspirations and the boy who charms his way into her life, centering on themes of addiction, loss, and the tumultuousness of first love--and how to find strength when everything falls apart
Coming Up for Air
β Scribed by Henry, Patti Callahan
- Book ID
- 100599234
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, Alabama, Alabama.
- ISBN
- 1429940662
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...
Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband β between her reality and the woman she wants to be β she doesnβt quite seem to fit into her own life. But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellieβs world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, at her motherβs funeral and learns that he is in charge of a documentary that involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to questions that Ellieβs not sure she can face, until, in the painful midst of going through her motherβs things, she discovers a hidden diary β and a window onto stories buried long ago.
As Ellie and Hutch start speaking for the first time in years, Ellieβs closed heart slowly begins to open. Fighting their feelings, they set out together to dig into Lillianβs history. Using both the diary and a trip to the Summer House, a mysterious and seductive bayside home, they gamble that they can work together and not fall in love again. But in piecing together a decades-old unrequited-love story, they just might uncover the secrets in their own heartsβ¦
β¦ Subjects
Alabama
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