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Family reunion, Nancy Thayer

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Family reunion

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Nancy Thayer

"Eleanor Sunderland loves living on Nantucket in a gorgeous cliffside home that has been in her family for decades. Yet this year she cant help but feel a bit isolated, even as the island comes alive with summer tourists and travelers. Her best friend has skipped town on a last-minute cruise, leaving Eleanor lonely and feeling nostalgic about her familys weekend trips to the island, made less frequently in the years since her husbands passing. Now her money-driven children contact her mostly to complain and to beg her to sell her beloved home for a steep payout. Hoping to kick the season off on a good note, Eleanor decides that her seventieth birthday may be the perfect occasion for a much-needed reunion. Fresh from her college graduation, Eleanors granddaughter, Ari, has just ended an engagement that felt less like true love and more like a chore. She longs for a change of scenery and to escape her parents snobbish expectations. Taking advantage of her newfound freedom, Ari heads to Nantucket to clear he head before graduate school, moving in with her grandmother and taking a job at the local beach camp. As she watches Eleanor form a bond with an old acquaintance, Ari herself becomes smitten with a friends charming older brother. But just as grandmother and granddaughter fall into a carefree routine, shocking discoveries throw them off course, and their ideas for the future seem suddenly uncertain. Eleanor and Ari make exciting connections, old and new, over the course of an unpredictable, life-changing few months and learn to lean on each other through every new challenge they face, in this tale filled with Nancy Thayers signature Nantucket magic."--, Inside front jacket flap

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