"One Summer"
by David Baldacci
"One Summer" is the story of Jack and his family. Jack is dying and his family is fracturing. Lizzie, Jack's wife, is making a run to the pharmacy when she is killed in an automobile accident. After Lizzie's funeral, Bonnie, her mother takes charge and farms out his three children to relatives and puts Jack into hospice care. Miraculously Jack goes into remission. After he returns to work, he reclaims his family. Jack manages to provide for his children's physical needs, but meeting their emotional needs is another story. Jack packs up the family and takes them to the South Carolina shore. Lizzie grew up there and dreamed of taking her children to visit the house she grew up in and its lighthouse. Jack starts fixing up the old house and lighthouse. Summer turns to fall and the family stays. Lizzie's attachment to the lighthouse is both a curse and a salvation. Will Jack and his children become a family again?
Reminiscent of John Grisham's "Bleachers"
Read this book before the end of summer!
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