Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord

 


"When it all falls apart, who can you believe in?


Everything is going right for Lucy Hansson, until her mom’s cancer reappears. Just like that, Lucy breaks with all the constants in her life: her do-good boyfriend, her steady faith, even her longtime summer church camp job.


Instead, Lucy lands at a camp for kids who have been through tough times. As a counselor, Lucy is in over her head and longs to be with her parents across the lake. But that’s before she gets to know her coworkers, who are as loving and unafraid as she so desperately wants to be.


It’s not just new friends that Lucy discovers at camp—more than one old secret is revealed along the way. In fact, maybe there’s much more to her family and her faith than Lucy ever realized." - taken from Goodreads.


Even though this book ends abruptly, it did break me at the end. Discovering the reasons why Lucy's mom wanted her to spend the summer working at Camp Daybreak instead of at their church camp while she undergoes cancer treatments, is the heart of the story. Not your typical Emery Lord read.


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