Bibliograph

The gap year, a novel, by Sarah Bird

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The gap year, a novel, by Sarah Bird

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The gap year

Oclc number

670479473

Responsibility statement

by Sarah Bird

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learn how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nestCam Lightsey, lactation consultant, is a single mom, a suburban misfit who?s given up her rebel dreams to set her only child on an upward path. Aubrey Lightsey, a pretty, shy girl who plays clarinet, is ready to explode from wanting her “real” life to begin. When Aubrey meets Tyler Moldenhauer, football idol of students and teachers alike, the fuse is lit. Aubrey metastasizes into Cam?s worst teen nightmare: full of secrets and silences, uninterested in college. Worse, on the sly she?s in touch with her father, who left when she was two to join NEXT!-a celebrity-ridden cult-where he?s a headline grabber. As the novel unfolds-with emotional fireworks, humor, and edge-of-your-seat suspense-the dreams of daughter, mother, and father chart an inevitable, but perhaps not fatal, collision . .

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