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Mira Banul is a year-rounder on Haven, a small barrier island, and she’s proud of it. When all the vacationing families finally leave after Labor Day weekend, Mira and her friends have total rule of the island. They spend their days in school and on the beach, enjoying everything the island has to offer.
But one day everything changes when a huge storm decimates the Haven community. Mira’s family is stuck on the mainland and Mira struggles to take care of herself and her house. This island-wide tragedy opens the minds and the hearts of all the community members and results in a beautiful display of support for each other.
"THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU was an enormous reminder of the significance of family and community, especially in times of need."
Don’t read THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU by Beth Kephart if you’re scared of feeling intense emotions. Kephart took my heart, fed it a story of colorful characters and strong imagery and then crushed me beneath the weight of overwhelming reality. I could feel her controlling each character like it was one of her puppets in a puppet show.
THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU was an enormous reminder of the significance of family and community, especially in times of need. It woke me up to the reality of life while comforting me with the actuality of love. I would strongly recommend this book to any reader looking for a strong, heartfelt story with dynamic characters.
Teaser
On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on --- to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future.
Promo
On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on --- to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future.
About the Book
On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on --- to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future. Gripping and poetic, THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU is about the beauty of nature and the power of family, about finding hope in the wake of tragedy and recovery in the face of overwhelming loss.
