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The Second Home
by Christina Clancy
This was a really engrossing book... which is exactly what I needed right now. The story begins when the Gordon daughters, Ann and Poppy, are in high school. Ann's friend from school, Michael, has moved in with them because he has no other place to go. The Gordon parents are teachers, partly because they're passionate about academia and partly because they love having the summers free to visit their second home, an almost-falling-apart family traditional salt box vacation home on Cape Cod. The summer before Ann and Michael's senior year, their safe and comfortable family dynamic begins to fall apart. I enjoy how the house and the Cape Cod setting function in the plot. I believed in Ann and Michael and Poppy implicitly, and all of their journeys seemed realistic. The story is told in third person, in alternating points of view, from the three high school students. We see the three of them as teens and as adults as the story progresses. I wasn't sure, at the beginning, if I would like this or not; the people in the family are troubled in lots of troubling ways. But I really cared about what would happen to them. This would be a great book club book.