Driftwood Summer by Patti Callahan Henry was a book about a family in a small beachside town who have many conflicts and have gone their separate ways. The family owns a bookstore on the beach run by one sister, Riley who is a single mom, never revealing the father of her son. One sister, Maisy is an interior designer in California and escaped the family running away from something terrible she did to her best friend. And then Adalee who is a college student. They all come back together to the beachside bookstore, Driftwood Cottage to help their mother celebrate the anniversary of the bookstore with a week of special events. It is during this time they face all the conflicts that tore them apart. In trying to right their wrongs many secrets are revealed making this an interesting read.
I enjoyed all the story lines but it has always been my dream to open a bookstore on the beach and I loved reading that part of the story of how they ran the bookstore, the layout, the events they held and more. I have never read a book by this author but I am sure I will be picking up more by her. The descriptions of the characters made you invest in their lives and want them to work everything out. It was easy to sympathize with them and what they were dealing with. Definitely worth a read.
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