First published 2017
Lucy Willows thinks she knows her family until she discovers her father has an eight-year-old son from an affair. The boy lives right in their suburban New Jersey neighborhood. Lucy watches her mother forgive the betrayal. She sees her sister accept the news without anger. But Lucy cannot move past what her father has done. She pulls away from her friends and her boyfriend Simon, the one person who seemed to understand her. The secret weighs on her more each day. Lucy decides to escape to Maine to visit her estranged grandfather. There she begins to uncover the deeper secrets that have shaped her family for years. Lucy must decide whether understanding the past can help her find her way forward.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, secrets
Setting: Maine, New Jersey
Period: contemporary
260 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers