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Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 2002-06-25
ISBN-10: 0345441133
ISBN-13: 9780345441133
List Price: $7.99
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The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.
Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora's past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade.
Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone's hearts had been broken. . . .
What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family's past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother--and herself--through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love.
Summer Island is a beautiful novel, funny, tender, sad, and ultimately triumphant.
From the Hardcover edition.
Satisfying summer read
| Customer Rating: | | The central story concerns a mother estranged from her daughters, the painful journeys they all have taken, and the emergence of courage enough to begin the healing process. There are secondary stories, some quite powerful, and issues of prejudice, Hollywood facades, parenting failures, as well as a young man dying of cancer, also estranged from his familiy. Set in the San Juan islands, the book celebrates the beauty there, and depends on the vagaries of island transportation to move some of the story along. One of the daughters exemplifies the damage done by her mother's abandonment, as well as the strength of character developed through years of shaky independent living. See the discussion of some similar family issues in Letters to My Granddaughters; Insights and inspiration for a life journey. |
A few steps above Danielle Steel
| Customer Rating: | | I am surprised to see this book rated so highly, because I really didn't think it was very good. I picked it up at a hotel in Europe while I was travelling, saw that it was on the New York Times bestseller list, and figured it had to be pretty decent. But I had just finished reading The Kite Runner, Bel Canto, and the Kalahari Typing School for Men, all of which I thought were very well written. It's true that she tackled some difficult subjects - and that's where she rose above Danielle Steel - but I didn't find the characters all that compelling, and the writing was uninspired. |
Nice Story
| Customer Rating: | | This story was quite heartwarming. A family torn apart and the journey to find each other again. The story was sometimes predictable and boring but was well written. The author did a great job developing the characters. Enjoyable light reading. |
Nice heartwarming story
| Customer Rating: | | This is not the 1st book I've read by Hannah. I loved On Mystic Lake and Between Sisters but this was just so-so. It was boring at times and predictable. It's a good story though about mothers and daughters and when relationships go astray. Try it..you might like it. |
Boring and Same Old, Same Old
| Customer Rating: | | I received this book for free, and I'm glad I didn't pay anything for it. It was boring and predictable. Very drawn out. This is the first book I've read by Kristin Hannah. I surely hope her others are better and deeper than this one. Very disappointing. |
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