**Emma's dreams of popularity and academic success go up in smoke when she's transferred to a less prestigious high school** Twelfth grader Emma Walsh is one of the lucky few African Americans at exclusive Marlborough High School. She is the only black student on the student council, and she's ju
We Are Together Because
โ Scribed by Kerry Andrew
- Book ID
- 115200071
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781805460190
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father's house in the south of France. The boys don't really know him, and they don't really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going of the four, is keen to bring a new shape to their overlapping, unconventional family; Connor and Thea, born just six months apart but a world of difference between them, are struggling to hide their attraction to each other; Violet, the youngest, is trying to figure some things out about herself, and trying desperately to forget others. Sex in all its multiple forms is on the minds of the siblings during the hot, lethargic summer days spent next to the pool, but the land around them is starting to respond to something inexplicable and eerie. Animals begin to act strangely. There is a buzzing sound that only Connor can hear, and when Violet one night sees a plane light abruptly disappear in the sky, it signals the beginning of something...
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