The Myth of Perpetual Summer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501172014)

From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous sixties that harkens to both Ordinary Grace and The Secret Life of Bees.

Tallulah James's parents' volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her family's reputation and raising her younger twin siblings onto her youthful shoulders.

If not for the emotional constants of her older brother, Griff, and her old guard Southern grandmother, she would be lost. When betrayal and death arrive hand in hand, she takes to the road, headed to what turns out to be the not-so-promised land of Southern California. The dysfunction of her childhood still echoes throughout her scattered family, sending her brother on a disastrous path and drawing her home again. There she uncovers the secrets and lies that set her family on the road to destruction.

Author: Susan Crandall
ISBN-10: 1501172018
ISBN-13: 9781501172014
Publisher: Gallery Books
Language: English
Published: 06/19/2018
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2018 pg. 34
Shelf Awareness 07/13/2018
School Library Journal 11/01/2018 pg. 81