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The People We Keep (Center Point Large Print) Library Binding – Large Print, November 1, 2021
- Print length517 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCenter Point Pub
- Publication dateNovember 1, 2021
- Dimensions5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
- ISBN-101638081131
- ISBN-13978-1638081135
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Product details
- Publisher : Center Point Pub; Large type / Large print edition (November 1, 2021)
- Language : English
- Library Binding : 517 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1638081131
- ISBN-13 : 978-1638081135
- Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,958,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #22,434 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books)
- #25,193 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- #33,796 in Family Life Fiction (Books)
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About the author
Allison Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Stay, Why Can’t I Be You, and Swimming for Sunlight. Her short fiction has been published in the Summerset Review and Slice, and nonfiction in the anthologies, I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship and Author in Progress. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her husband, Jeremy.
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“I feel like I am actually here. Like someone dropped my mind into my body and it’s a shock to the system. I think maybe they were only walking side by side before this and now we are here together, both parts of me.” April demonstrates keen insights, which both protect her and keep her moving along. There are definite snags along the way, as she meets people, reaches out, attaches and detaches. Some are people she never sees again, but others are the people she wants to keep around. She accumulates and sheds, and along the way she captivates almost everyone she meets. As reader, you become her biggest fan, or you become April! I swung from one to the other. When I wasn’t rooting for April, I WAS April. That’s how finely tuned her character was written. Like she popped out of the pages into my life. Yes, we all could use a little April in our lives.
Ugh. I want to love this book. Was I drawn in by the story? Absolutely. Would I read it again? Probably not. There’s a lot of heartbreak in this book, for the characters AND the reader. Almost too much. I mourned for the main character for the entirety of the book. I mourned for the real children, teens, young adults in our world who live this as their reality.
The book is an easy read in the sense that the story is easy to follow and vocabulary is common. But if you struggle with depression, anxiety, or any of the TWs from above, this might be a difficult read. It was for me.
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Friends are our chosen family and we are all deserving of love.
April is such a great girl. She is 16 and she is alone. She never has a feeling to belong ti somone or somewhere. She has the feeling noone would miss her. And here she get me with whole my heart. She is also a musician and such sensitive person. She travels and never settles couse she in convinced is better for her to left everybody so they will not get hurt. Yes she does wrong decisions, but she is so young. We have to learn living. She see and feel more of wrong and good in the world that someone even in a lifetime does not. I never leave her.
"We have people we get to keep, who won’t ever let us go. And that’s the most important part."
Reviewed in Italy on February 24, 2022
Story is good. Will recommend to any woman who I think wants to cry.