000			01835nam a22002657a 4500
005			20241025083144.0
008			241025s2015 nyu 000 1 eng d
010			_a2015297335
020			_a9781617735493 _q(paperback)
020			_a1617735493 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)886505436
050	0	0	_aPS3611.I3994 _bS86 2015
082	0	4	_2[Fic]
100	1		_aKietzman, Susan _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe summer cottage _ba novel _c[2015]
264		1	_aNew York, NY _bKensington Books _c[2015]
300			_a326 pages _c22 cm
500			_aIncludes discussion guides
520			_a"Helen Street spent every summer of her childhood at her family's cedar-shake cottage on Long Island Sound. The youngest of four, she shared her mother Claire's athletic genes and relished the orchestrated games and competitions that filled those warm, endless days. Unlike her older siblings--fiery Charlotte, ambitious Thomas, middle-child Pammy--Helen rarely felt the pressure of her mother's high expectations. Thirty years later, with her brother and sisters scattered, Helen is the sole caregiver for Claire, now terminally ill. Knowing her death is imminent, Claire has put Helen in the awkward position of telling the others that she plans on leaving everything, including the cottage, to Helen when she dies--unless everyone comes to the shore for a long weekend over the Fourth of July. During this time together, Helen, Charlotte, Pammy, and Thomas will revisit their long-ago decisions and assumptions. And they will face new choices that could shatter their fragile kinship--or reveal a family's extraordinary power to remember, to forgive, and to grow"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aTerminally ill _vFiction _xFamily relationships
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction
655			_aFiction
942			_2ddc _cBKTMP
999			_c57 _d57