Sandy and her husband Emmett are awaken in the middle of the night with the news that no parent ever wants to receive, that her twenty-year-old son, Jordan, has been in a car accident and is being taken to the hospital. Along with him in the car was his cousin Travis and their friend Michelle, both badly injured. Tensions arise when it is revealed that the kids had been out drinking and that Jordan was driving. These tensions cause a long kept secret of Sandy’s, […]
The Things We Wish Were True
In this novel we follow multiple characters stories through the summer of 2014 in Sycamore Glen. We have Jencey, a mother returning with her two daughters, Pilar and Zara, back home after her husband’a arrest and is left with nothing. She is returning home to live with her parents as she figures out what her next steps are. Bryte is married to Everrett, and her son Christopher. Bryte and Jencey were friends in high school, but haven’t really spoken since, not since Jencey suddenly left. Everrett is […]
A Work In Progress
I’ll be honest, the reason I picked this book up was because I grew up in the same small town in Minnesota that the author grew up in. This alone made me want to read his book. In his memoir, Connor takes about his early life and his family. He has his parents write letters to him to help explain who he is. Connor is a YouTuber, who has millions of subscribers. He begins by sharing how he started talking to a camera at a young […]
The List
Every year in September, at Mount Washington High School, a list is created listing eight girls, two from each grade. One girl in each grade is named the Prettiest, and the other is named the Ugliest. No one knows who creates the list. We begin with the morning the list is hung all around the school. Many freshman are unaware of what the list is. This list is always released at the beginning of Homecoming Week. The senior who is listed as the prettiest, is almost […]