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--secrets kept, promises broken, hearts betrayed. Elin Hilderbrand explores the power of community, family, and honesty, and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight.
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0 0Eh, not my favorite of hers. The setting is lovely, the characters are complex and the topics are relevant but it still fell short for me. so many sad events, lot of angst-ing around without much growth. And while I’m usually fine with an unlikeable character or 2, must all of them be valid and annoying? And fat shaming. I don’t want to spoil anything but I wish had known about these: TW for suicide, infant death, infidelity.
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