Agent: Amy Rennert, Amy Rennert Literary Agency. Though the novel feels uneven in places, with a prolonged beginning and abrupt plot developments toward the end involving Mira discovering heretofore unknown family members, Kephart ( One Stolen Thing) establishes relatable characters and a poetic style that artfully blend the island days before and after the storm. Days from rescue, Mira and friend Deni search for survivors while the rest of the town gathers resources. Wife Daughter Self, her memoir in essays, will be released from Forest Avenue Press in February 2021. Using her forward thinking and bravery, Mira survives the storm and joins the trash-strewn beach with its collection of islanders reeling after half the town is washed away. Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of more than thirty books and dozens of essays, an award-winning adjunct teacher of memoir at the University of Pennsylvania, and a cofounder of Juncture Writing Workshops. Though 17-year-old Mira loves her family, she wishes life were simpler for them-a wish she regrets when a hurricane pummels the island while her mother and brother are on the mainland. Having a younger brother with Hunter syndrome is hard on Mira Banul and her mother, Mickey, who works multiple jobs to pay for Jasper Lee’s treatments and necessities for the cottage they inherited from Mira’s aunt on the barrier island of Haven.
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