As her sister awaits medical treatment after a mysterious boating accident, Arion heads to her father's hometown in Maine, where she finds a strange connection with solitary surfer Bo, whose otherworldly family may be linked to her sister's worsening condition.
Shining Sea
โ Scribed by Anne Korkeakivi
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0316269328
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โฆ Synopsis
An arresting and absorbing novel that spans decades, drawing us into the turbulent lives of a family in Southern California after the sudden death of the father Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, Shining Sea quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three -year-old Michael Gannon's widow and offspring. Brilliantly described and utterly alive on the page, the Gannon clan find themselves charting paths they never anticipated, for decades to come. Told with a cinematic sweep, Shining Sea transports us from World War II to the present day, crisscrossing from the beaches of Southern California to the Woodstock rock festival, from London's gritty nightlife in the eighties to Scotland's remote Inner Hebrides, from the dry heat of Arizona to the fertile farmland of Massachusetts. Epic, tender, and beautifully rendered, Shining Sea is the portrait of an American family-a profound depiction of the ripple effects of war, the passing down of memory,...
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