Kirkus Reviews Readers will immediately fall for Ruby with her humor and her wry way of looking at the world.
The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books Caletti has the gift of voice and tells her story with humor, insight, and compassion. Review Quotes Caletti explores the conflicting, complicated impulses of the human heart with polish and penetration. Theyre in search of a happy ending.but for who? This lyrical, multigenerational story of love, loss, and redemption speaks to everyone who has ever been in love-and lived to tell the tale. And when the group discovers one of their own members is the subject of the tragic love story they are reading, Ann and Ruby ditch their respective obsessions to spearhead a reunion between the long-ago lovers. At first, Ruby cant imagine a more boring way to spend an afternoon, but she is soon charmed by the women shes spending time with. In an effort to keep Ruby occupied and mend her own broken heart, her mother, Ann, drags Ruby to the weekly book club she runs for seniors.
But Ruby is in over her head, risking more and more when shes with him. With Travis, Ruby can be someone shes never been before: Fearless. It is summer in the northwest town of Nine Mile Falls, and Ruby McQueen-ordinarily dubbed The Quiet Girl-finds herself hanging out with gorgeous, rich, thrill-seeking Travis Becker. Book Synopsis A summer romance headed for heartbreak turns into a mother-daughter road trip in the name of true love in this story of love, loss, and redemption from Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.
About the Book From the author of The Queen of Everything comes a lyrical, multigenerational story of love, loss, and redemption that speaks to everyone who has ever been in love and lived to tell the tale.
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