![]() ![]() It is Poppa who tells the tales of these intriguing runaways, as together they encounter true loves, vicious drug dealers, charming rogues, clueless do-gooders, and a devastating hurricane. As he tries to make sense of his own vagabond existence, he offers his fellow expats booze, advice, and the occasional helping hand. ![]() There they find the unpredictable, hedonistic, and sometimes frightening world of the tropics.Īt the center of this extraordinary group is Poppa, the irreverent and savvy owner of the local beach bar. Fleeing boredom, bad marriages, and dead-end jobs, these adventurers wander south to Playa Paraiso-a lush, unspoiled village on Mexico's idyllic Caribbean coast. This captivating book follows modern-day nomads escaping the rat race in search of a fresh start. If You've Ever Dreamed of Running Away to Paradise, Driftwood Will Spark Your Secret Wanderlust ![]() WINNER "BEST FIRST BOOK 2021" ~ INDIE REVIEW DISCOVERY AWARDS A "BEST BOOKS OF 2020" WINNER ~ KIRKUS REVIEWS ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Minneapolis Star Tribune names What Happened to Sophie Wilder one of the Top Ten Books of the Year. Christopher Beha's debut novel explores faith, love, friendship, and, ultimately, the redemptive power of storytelling. When she disappears once again, Charlie sets out to discover what happened to Sophie Wilder. Now Sophie begins to tell Charlie the story of her life since then, particularly the story of the days she spent taking care of a dying man with his own terrible past and of the difficult decision he forced her to make. Sophie is also struggling, though Charlie isn't sure why, since they've barely spoke, after falling out a decade before. He's living on New York's Washington Square, struggling with his follow-up, and floundering within his pseudointellectual coterie when his college love, Sophie Wilder, returns to his life. A heartfelt exploration of faith and love and friendship, What Happened To Sophie Wilder is a beautiful, absorbing work about the redemptive power of storytelling: a literary love story.Ĭharlie Blakeman has just published his first novel, to almost no acclaim. ![]() ![]() ![]() Partially written in the octopus’ voice, this book is about how grief and loneliness can be transformed in mysterious and magical ways. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late. ![]() Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors-until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.Įver the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. ![]() Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. It’s one of these books that will stay with you long after you read the final page.Īfter Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Remarkably Bright Creatures is not a cat book, although a cat is featured in it, but it is such a wonderful book, I just had to share it with you. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was calm, manageable, even - she shuddered to think it - sleek and shiny. There had been so many other circuses of insanity to deal with that she hadn't even noticed. Her Junior Grim friends have stood by her, but that has only made them outcasts. but after she let the murderous Zara get awayand inadvertently transferred her ability to Damn souls to her on top of thatLex is a pariah in the little town full of Grims. Look, yours has gotten straighter already." Croak used to be the only place where Lex, a teenage Grim Reaper, felt like she fit in. Doesn't happen to everyone, but I can assure you that Ferbus's wasn't always the color of a prison jumpsuit, Zara wasn't born Silvylocks, and Mort's been rocking the electrocution look for years. It messes with your follicles or something. "You think I want to look like a drunken hedgehog all the time? It's from hanging out in the ether so much. ![]() He gestured to the disaster atop his head. "What?" she barked, knocking his scythe to the ground once more. Probably the same weird reason our hair goes all wonky." "Yeah." He bent down to pick up his scythe. ![]() "What do you mean? Is that why everyone around here has such creepy fingers?" ![]() "Wait - what?" She batted the sapphire blade out of his hands. One day she defends her only friend Peter from the relentless attacks of the football team and its team captain Nick Lewis. "Wait until yours look the same," he said, preparing to scythe. A Young Adult Literature series by Gina Damico about a juvenile delinquent who gets sent to stay with her uncle in an effort to rehabilitate her. Eva Shaw has spent 17 years of her life in the shadows- without holding anyone close to truly know the true Eva. Your bony hands of death amuse me, that's all." ![]() ![]() ![]() Their father has escaped the family remains by relocating to Nashville due to ‘work’, while their mother, a flatulent mess, spends her day hermetically cooped up in her bedroom wilfully passing the hours away. By this point it is Charlotte’s mother, the stern Edie, who has taken the responsibility amongst the multitude of aunts to help bring up Charlotte’s two daughters, Allison, 16, and Harriet, 12. ![]() This irreplaceable idyll is destroyed when Robin is found hanging from a noose at the bottom of the family garden.Ī killer is never found, and the enigmatic circumstances surrounding Robin’s death eat away at the Cleve family until the family unit becomes but a pale imitation of its former glory, which is how they appear twelve years later in the novel’s opening chapter. Donna Tartt’s ‘The Little Friend’ begins with a prologue describing the Edenic existence of the Cleve family: the prattle of the assembly of aunt the happiness of Charlotte, Dix and their three children the youthful zest of their eldest, the red-haired, freckled, nine year-old Robin who steals the hearts of all his family members with his boundless energy. ![]() |