Dannie Kohan can’t believe her life -- the perfect Manhattan lawyer gig and a brand new diamond ring on her finger. The night her boyfriend proposes Dannie can’t think of anything else she could dream of. And then, she falls asleep. She wakes up 5 years later with a different ring and different man. She’s freaked when she wakes up but brushes it off. It’s just a dream, right? Right. Until four and a half years later the man from her dream shows up in her life.
Abby Day is a quirky photographer who is going through it. Her grades are slipping, she’s one paper away from failing her English class, and her Grandpa passed away a year ago. The only thing getting her through are her two best friends: Leo and Connie. Except things are awkward with Leo because of a Big Embarrassing Incident that both are avoiding discussing. Everything starts to change for Abby the day she accidentally learns of a big sister she never knew existed….and decides to go to summer camp to unravel her family's secrets with long lost big sis Savannah Tully.
Isa Wilde and her friends from boarding school 15 years earlier are reunited and their lives upended when Kate sends a text: I need you. The women are bonded by the lies they told and the web they spun. They are haunted by a 15 year old lie told around the same time Kate's dad disappeared. As the lies they've told start to surface, so does the truth.
Casey Peabody. 31, waitress, trying to make it as a writer. Her mother suddenly passed away and her heart got broken. Living in Cambridge in 1997, Casey is trying to make enough to pay rent and finish her novel while she figures out what her life is supposed to look like. Transitional periods are messy and personally harrowing, and also oddly freeing at times. This is a portrait of an artist. And it is beautiful.
An Island off the coast of Ireland, recently purchased and renovated, is the setting for an elite wedding. The guests arrive, boating across the choppy sea. A storm is in the air. This is supposed to be the happiest weekend of their lives, but it is anything but. As the weekend progresses, guests reveal more about their pasts. Everyone is connected, and no one has forgotten what's happened. The wedding is perfectly planned, not a thing could go wrong. Until someone dies, that is.
The Vacationers follows the Post family during their two-week stay in Mallorca, Spain. Surrounded by the beautiful mountains and the clear blue sea, what could possibly go wrong with a family on an island? Turns out a lot. Each family member is struggling with something: money, relationships, infidelity, adulthood, family. Straub follows each character as they navigate their feelings and problems on the island.
Just a few weeks ago I had all the time in the world to write. I patiently awaited the words to form; my notebook was ready when they rolled around to say hi. I didn’t need a space for the words; I lived in them, with them. The days revolved around them. Just a few…
Why haven’t you written a short story yet? What are you waiting for? These two questions have often arisen in my brain waves during the summer months of the pandemic. I’m quick to counter them with excuses: I’m scared, I don’t have good ideas, I prefer to write nonfiction. The biggest excuse: I’m waiting for…
I flipped the crisp, barely touched page that lay within the strikingly eloquent, raw personal narrative by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The pages of Between the World and Me were heavy from the weight of the paper and the words of truth sprawled upon the fibers. From the looks of the pages and the integrity of the…
The sound of the highway whirred in our ears as we whizzed by the fields of home which slowly turned into skyscrapers and the familiarity of my hometown suburbia. The skyscrapers and familiarity melted away as lakes appeared and trees grew tall. The rows of corn became rows of houses and the rows of houses…
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