Our heroine, Mira, is someone who spends a lot of the novel reflecting on her life, friendships, and the people she has met in her small town on Haven. I wasn’t sure what to expect out of this novel as I read it, but it’s one of those books where it asks the reader to be patient, and it’s subtle in a lot of ways. It’s a very simple story that looks at survival, devastation, self-reflection and family, and it does all this in a very small package. Everything is slow, methodically put together, wrapped in poetic writing. The Story of You is one of those very quiet books. Huge thank you to Raincoast for this ARC! 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. A friend obsessed with vanishing is gone. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira’s home. But when a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, when it strands Mira’s mother and brother on the mainland and upends all logic, nothing will ever be as it was. Synopsis: 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.
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