A little ray of sunshine /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Berkley, 2023Description: 498 pages : 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593547601
- 0593547608
- 9780593547618
- 0593547616
- 9781638088080
- 813/.6 23/20221125
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew Walker, and he's come to spend the summer on the Cape with his parents. Why? Well, he wants to meet you before he heads off to college in the fall. Tiny detail - he didn't tell his adoptive parents about his plan. And while you hoped this day would come someday, you're so stunned, you actually faint. You're overjoyed (and stunned) and worried (and stunned) and you've yearned to meet him, but you didn't know it would be like this. Did you mention feeling stunned? Even more gobsmacked is your family. The Smiths looked like (and thought they were) the perfect family in town. How could Harlow, the 'boring sister' who runs the bookstore with her dotty old grandfather, have a secret baby? How did she keep this secret for so long? More than the truth of that baby will come out over the summer ahead, a summer filled with emotion as more than one secret is revealed, long-lost hurts are discovered... and one slightly lost soul realizes the best of everything is yet to come.
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"Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted-a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life-when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew Walker, and he's come to spend the summer on the Cape with his parents. Why? Well, he wants to meet you before he heads off to college in the fall. Tiny detail-he didn't tell his adoptive parents about his plan. And while you hoped this day would come someday, you're so stunned, you actually faint. You're overjoyed (and stunned) and worried (and stunned) and you've yearned to meet him, but you didn't know it would be like this. Did you mention feeling stunned? Even more gobsmacked is your family. The Smiths looked like (and thought they were) the perfect family in town. How could Harlow, the "boring sister" who runs the bookstore with her dotty old grandfather, have a secret baby? How did she keep this secret for so long? More than the truth of that baby will come out over the summer ahead, a summer filled with emotion as more than one secret is revealed, long-lost hurts are discovered...and one slightly lost soul realizes the best of everything is yet to come"--
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Booklist Review
Higgins (Out of the Clear Blue Sky, 2022) returns to Cape Cod in this multigenerational story about the enduring bonds of family. Bookshop co-owner Harlow is happy with her life: trivia nights with friends, a close relationship with her grandfather, and a sprawling, quirky extended family. Then teenager Matthew shows up at her store and reveals he's the son she gave up for adoption 17 years ago. Spending the summer with his family on Cape Cod, Matthew hopes to connect with his birth mother--a surprise for Matthew's parents as well, especially his mother, Monica, who is nervous about her son's budding relationship with Harlow. Higgins deftly navigates her characters' complex emotions, including both Harlow and Monica's points of view throughout the book. The women's inner lives are presented authentically, allowing the reader to understand the mixed feelings of joy, fear, love, and guilt that both women experience. Side stories and romantic subplots add depth and humor, but the emotional journey is the star of this comforting-as-a-cozy-sweater story. Hand this one to fans of Susan Wiggs and Jennifer Weiner.Kirkus Book Review
A 35-year-old Cape Cod bookstore owner is contacted by the son she gave up for adoption, and in being found by him, she finds herself. When Harlow Smith was 17 and in her first year of college, within the span of a month she started dating her first boyfriend, lost her virginity, and got pregnant. She made the extremely tough decision to have the baby--she dubbed him Matthew, her "little pal"--and give him up for adoption to Sanjay and Monica Patel when he was just a few minutes old. And she kept the entire thing a secret from her parents, siblings, and grandparents. Fast-forward almost 18 years, and a teenager who looks exactly like her brother comes into her bookstore. Harlow faints, much commotion ensues, and it turns out that Matthew has not only found her, but he's convinced his parents to rent a house on Cape Cod for their summer vacation without their knowing he'd tracked down his birth mother. What follows is a story about incredibly complicated emotions: Monica's love and anger and fear for her son as he tries to learn everything he can about his birth mother and her love for her daughter, Meena, with whom she unexpectedly became pregnant when Matthew was very young. Harlow's love for the son she gave away but thought about every day. Her parents' love for her, and their utter confusion about how she could have gone through something so incredibly hard entirely alone. Her 90-year-old Grandpop's unwavering love and support of her even as he sees the extreme pressure she puts on herself. And her friend Rosie's unquestioning love for her, and hers for Rosie. And, not to be left out among the multitude of other family members who are part of this story, Harlow's childhood friend Grady's love for his 4-year-old daughter, Luna, and Harlow's growing feelings for him. An uplifting story of love and gratitude--not to mention frustration, fear, and failure--in all forms of family. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Kristan Higgins is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author and two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Her books have been praised for their fast, funny dialogue and sweet plots. Before she became an author she worked in advertising and public relations. She attended the College of the Holy Cross where she earned her BA in English. She writes the Blue Heron Novel Series and the Gideon's Cove Maine Series.
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