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"Fifty year old Susannah Nelson is a Seattle schoolteacher with two kids and a loving husband, Joe. When Susannah discovers that her recently widowed mother Vivian Leary is experiencing memory problems and having "visions" of her deceased husband George, Susannah heads back to her hometown of Colville, Washington. Susannah makes the decision to help her elderly mother and to research assisted living facilities in the area. Susannah has also been having dreams of her high school love Jake and fantasizing about his whereabouts. Although happily married, Susannah has questions about the end of her romance with Jake. Susannah has long suspected that her father was involved in Jake's breaking up with her and leaving Colville. The summer Susannah turned seventeen her boyfriend Jake wanted Susannah to run away with him and get married. Susannah resisted the plan to elope and the next day her parents sent her to France for several months. During this time her older brother Dough died in a car crash. Susannah never gorgave her father for not allowing her to return from France in order to attend her brother's funeral. Shortly after her brother's death, Susannah received another blow when Jake broke up with her and left town. Susannah has unresolved issues surrounding her father's death and her belief that her father never loved her. As Susannah moves her mother into an assisted living center, she begins the process of cleaning out her parents' home. Susannah is shocked when she stumbles upon a dated check from 1973 made out to Jake's father for $5,000. Along with the check is a letter showing that Jake and his family received the money in exchange for leaving Colville. Now, Susannah is more determined than ever to find Jake and uncover the truth about the past. As Susannah gets closer and closer to the truth, she discovers a shocking secret from the past."
Sandra Calhoune, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Family, caring for ill
Yes
Who is sick?
- Mother
because he/she is
- basically "out of it"
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- search for family/history
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- teacher
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 6 (an above average amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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