Summerland

The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews).

A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.

As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents, the secrets kept, promises broken, and hearts betrayed.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 06/01/2012
ISBN: 9780316099837
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.60d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2012 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 04/30/2012 pg. 110
Library Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 94
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2012
Booklist 06/01/2012 pg. 38
People Weekly 07/09/2012 pg. 44
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2012 pg. 13