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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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- 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: #2,956,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #22,412 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books)
- #25,190 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- #33,857 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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Set in the mid-90s, this tale follows the story of April Sawicki, a 16-year-old girl from a small town who has been dealt a raw deal when it comes to family. After a fight with her father, April steals a car and flees their motor-free motorhome to find somewhere she can fit in and call home.
This is a character-driven story with a stream-of-consciousness writing style that really resonated with me. We travel with April as she spends nights in her car, finds various people to stay with, and lines up various jobs and musical gigs. She meets an interesting array of people along the way, and we are immersed in her thoughts as she makes mistakes –sometimes the same mistake more than once – and learns to trust herself and others.
The book fits the theme of my book club really well. Larkin creates a flawed, endearing, memorable character in April. Throughout the course of the novel, I was concerned, frustrated, and sad for her. Mostly, I wanted her to grow and find happiness – and Larkin ultimately allows her to do both.
The People We Keep is a touching story about found family and reminds me of both the people who have come into my life for a reason and those who will always be there no matter what.
If you enjoy books like Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, chances are you will be a fan of this one as well.
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2022
Set in the mid-90s, this tale follows the story of April Sawicki, a 16-year-old girl from a small town who has been dealt a raw deal when it comes to family. After a fight with her father, April steals a car and flees their motor-free motorhome to find somewhere she can fit in and call home.
This is a character-driven story with a stream-of-consciousness writing style that really resonated with me. We travel with April as she spends nights in her car, finds various people to stay with, and lines up various jobs and musical gigs. She meets an interesting array of people along the way, and we are immersed in her thoughts as she makes mistakes –sometimes the same mistake more than once – and learns to trust herself and others.
The book fits the theme of my book club really well. Larkin creates a flawed, endearing, memorable character in April. Throughout the course of the novel, I was concerned, frustrated, and sad for her. Mostly, I wanted her to grow and find happiness – and Larkin ultimately allows her to do both.
The People We Keep is a touching story about found family and reminds me of both the people who have come into my life for a reason and those who will always be there no matter what.
If you enjoy books like Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, chances are you will be a fan of this one as well.
“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.
By the part 3 of the novel I also hated April, all of her choices were sparatic and felt a little thrown together. Not that the character wasn't spontaneous it just felt a little rushed. I will say I was surprised by the ending something I expected to be very predictable wasn't how the book ends.
Lastly, I also found it interesting the author chose to set the novel in the 90s however never actually has anything particularly placing the character in that time I felt as though it was happening/could happen right now the only thing being her using a payphone and while not common today aren't completely gone. I think there was a lot of missed opportunities to set the scene in the time it was meant to be just because the character doesn't have a cell phone doesn't mean it automatically means she isn't from the current decade, yet the novel seemed to rely on that heavily to enforce a time period that wasn't well established.
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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.