In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed―tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they’ve been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you. Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-grab-a-tissue-the-next novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it’s our daughters who will save us all.
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- this was not a page-turner, but it was an enjoyable reading experience
- it was easy to keep the three point of views separate --individually were well done, but did want a little bit more regarding the bonds of sisterhood
- definitely was a small town feel
- there was an interesting 'mystery' element. I maybe took a break at the exact wrong moment, because I didn't really follow the whole reason why the dam should come down. Was an interesting idea about how people wanted it to reopen
- commentary on global warming? Convenience over morality and justice?
- I did like the mild girl-power vibes
- the sex happening was abrupt!
- I did not feel either the laugh out loud or tearjerker feelings the way that the blurb promised
- I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book despite feeling that I was in a reading slump
- the triplet main characters was really the strength of the book and they had their own distinct voices, though I did feel it occasionally veered into meddling kids Scooby-Doo vibes
- in the city of Bourne, Monday and Mirabel are normal-- I want to read more books with autism and disability representation but where this is not the focus/a problem
- I do agree with other reviewers that this was a slow paced book with minimal tension
- the young main characters and the whole Next Generation Factor... Almost too distant from the horrors that had happened? Did this decrease in the impact of the tragedy for the reader? Did we need that shock and awe value?
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