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Once, Upon an Island

Laury A. Egan

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Description:A sixteen-year-old girl, Olivia, who feels guilty about her younger brother’s death. Her mother, Evelyn, a glamorous woman. A sojourn on St. Croix, a beautiful tropical island. Travis, the charismatic owner of the Pink Fancy Hotel. And a mysterious Czechoslovakian widow, Sofiya. Two love affairs. Secrets. Two rapes. Nazis. Ravensbrück concentration camp. Conflict, jealousy, kindness, tenderness. A rescue and a resurrection. All woven together in a haunting work of literary fiction set in 1966.Olivia accompanies her mother, Evelyn, an artist, to St. Croix. Their relationship is fraught with discord, heightened because Olivia is a self-conscious, lonely teenager. In addition to the contemporary friction, their turmoil has subterranean roots. In 1958, Olivia’s younger brother, Simon, while fishing with Olivia, fell into a river and died, a tragedy she relives in flashbacks as she suffers from guilt over his death and ostracism by her parents, especially by her mother, who blames her for the accident. In Christiansted, Olivia begins seeing a blond-haired boy who resembles her brother, though the boy disappears before she can meet him. She becomes obsessed with this elusive figure, thinking he is a ghost or Simon himself. As Olivia struggles with her demons, her married mother becomes involved with the hotel’s owner, Travis, and on the second day, Olivia encounters a fifty-year-old Czechoslovakian widow, Sofiya. The two forge a bond as they recognize their mutual grief and solitariness. Through a series of dramatic conversations, long-buried secrets are revealed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once, Upon an Island. To get started finding Once, Upon an Island, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 284

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Heliotrope Books

Release: 2022

ISBN: 9711956470

Description: A sixteen-year-old girl, Olivia, who feels guilty about her younger brother’s death. Her mother, Evelyn, a glamorous woman. A sojourn on St. Croix, a beautiful tropical island. Travis, the charismatic owner of the Pink Fancy Hotel. And a mysterious Czechoslovakian widow, Sofiya. Two love affairs. Secrets. Two rapes. Nazis. Ravensbrück concentration camp. Conflict, jealousy, kindness, tenderness. A rescue and a resurrection. All woven together in a haunting work of literary fiction set in 1966.Olivia accompanies her mother, Evelyn, an artist, to St. Croix. Their relationship is fraught with discord, heightened because Olivia is a self-conscious, lonely teenager. In addition to the contemporary friction, their turmoil has subterranean roots. In 1958, Olivia’s younger brother, Simon, while fishing with Olivia, fell into a river and died, a tragedy she relives in flashbacks as she suffers from guilt over his death and ostracism by her parents, especially by her mother, who blames her for the accident. In Christiansted, Olivia begins seeing a blond-haired boy who resembles her brother, though the boy disappears before she can meet him. She becomes obsessed with this elusive figure, thinking he is a ghost or Simon himself. As Olivia struggles with her demons, her married mother becomes involved with the hotel’s owner, Travis, and on the second day, Olivia encounters a fifty-year-old Czechoslovakian widow, Sofiya. The two forge a bond as they recognize their mutual grief and solitariness. Through a series of dramatic conversations, long-buried secrets are revealed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once, Upon an Island. To get started finding Once, Upon an Island, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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