“Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is making plans: college in the fall, become a famous author, and maybe--finally--have sex. She doesn't even need to be in love. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he's leaving Claude's mother. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and her future anything but under control.
After: Claude's mom whisks them away to the last place Claude could imagine nursing a broken heart: a remote, mosquito-infested island off the coast of Georgia. But then Jeremiah Crew happens. Miah is a local trail guide with a passion for photography--and a past he doesn't like to talk about. He's brash and enigmatic, and even more infuriatingly, he's the only one who seems to see Claude for who she wants to be. So when Claude decides to sleep with Miah, she tells herself it's just sex, nothing more. There's not enough time to fall in love, especially if it means putting her already broken heart at risk.” - taken from Goodreads.com
Claude's story of endings and new beginnings literally broke my heart but put it back together in just the right way. With her world completely ripped out from underneath her just before her high school graduation, the story counts down the days leading to the end of their life as a family to the days she spends with her mom on the small remote Georgia island that her mother's family has ties to. When Jeremiah Crew drops into her life, an entire world of new beginnings opens up for both of them.
This book broke me more than the author's All the Bright Places and I think that the narrator's voice really conveyed Claude's voice. One can always hope for a future epilogue.
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