Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Scribner Books for gifting me a digital ARC of this beautiful debut by Katie Runde - 5 stars!
Margot and Brian own a rental home business in Seaside, New Jersey, and have two teenage daughters, Liz and Evy. When Brian develops a brain tumor, all their lives are changed forever. Suddenly, the business is too much for Margot and the girls, who have to figure out caretaking of Brian as he changes from the man they all loved.
This is a gorgeously-written novel - one that showcases old love and first love, family, grief, sisterhood. It's a character study of what it means to be human with all those messy emotions, a coming-of-age story of teenagers discovering themselves while losing where they came from. I loved spending time with this family and will be missing them and thinking of them now that I finished the book. I loved the glimpses of the future that the author sprinkled in so that we would have faith in their journey. Although it's a touch subject matter, i highly recommend spending time with the Dunne family. I can't wait to read more from this author.
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