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The Second Home
by Christina Clancy
The second home in this novel is a beach house on Cape Cod where the Gordon family has spent their summers for generations. This book “is about second homes, second families and second chances.”
At the beginning of the book, Ed and Connie Gordon, adopt a teenaged boy that becomes a sibling to their daughters, Poppy and Ann. One summer everything goes wrong and the siblings go their separate ways.
Poppy surfs and travels all over the world and rarely returns home to visit. To her, “Nothing quite compared to the intoxicating sensation of living a life that was always changing, always moving.” “She liked being disconnected.” She left home because she felt like she’d become invisible to her family. “She’d always defined herself as someone who could continually expand outward, never needing to return,” but when tragedy forces her to return back to the family’s beach house she “felt like she was reuniting with an old friend.”
Ann was always been the confident one in the family. Poppy’s long absence makes Ann feel rejected and abandoned by her sister. The summer that everything fell apart, Ann suffered from a traumatic event that still haunts her to this day.
Michael was orphaned when his own mother died and the Gordon family took him in as one of their own. He treasured the family and his place in it and the beach house was a magical place to him. He felt like that house was “the only place where his life ever felt like it made any sense.” “The houses he once inhabited now inhabited him. They were witnesses to who he once was, to the people he’d loved-and hated.”
“Is that what houses really were, containers for family? And once the containers were gone, the people inside were just set loose in the world, particles.”
In the end, the second home ends up being the anchor that brings the family back together. I highly recommend this book. I loved it!! Three of my favorite things: #beach read, #literary fiction, #dysfunctional family.
At the beginning of the book, Ed and Connie Gordon, adopt a teenaged boy that becomes a sibling to their daughters, Poppy and Ann. One summer everything goes wrong and the siblings go their separate ways.
Poppy surfs and travels all over the world and rarely returns home to visit. To her, “Nothing quite compared to the intoxicating sensation of living a life that was always changing, always moving.” “She liked being disconnected.” She left home because she felt like she’d become invisible to her family. “She’d always defined herself as someone who could continually expand outward, never needing to return,” but when tragedy forces her to return back to the family’s beach house she “felt like she was reuniting with an old friend.”
Ann was always been the confident one in the family. Poppy’s long absence makes Ann feel rejected and abandoned by her sister. The summer that everything fell apart, Ann suffered from a traumatic event that still haunts her to this day.
Michael was orphaned when his own mother died and the Gordon family took him in as one of their own. He treasured the family and his place in it and the beach house was a magical place to him. He felt like that house was “the only place where his life ever felt like it made any sense.” “The houses he once inhabited now inhabited him. They were witnesses to who he once was, to the people he’d loved-and hated.”
“Is that what houses really were, containers for family? And once the containers were gone, the people inside were just set loose in the world, particles.”
In the end, the second home ends up being the anchor that brings the family back together. I highly recommend this book. I loved it!! Three of my favorite things: #beach read, #literary fiction, #dysfunctional family.