Publication

2014-08-26 - Grand Central Publishing

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

Description

In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?

Subjects

Places

OrientalDurham (N.C.)North CarolinaNew Bern (N.C.)Oriental (N.C.)New Orleans (La.)Oriental (Carolina del Norte)

People

Ted Cole (fictional character)Abee Cole (fictional character)Dawson Cole (fictional character)Frank Ridley (fictional character)Jared Ridley (fictional character)David Bonner (fictional character)Amanda Collier (fictional character)

Times

1984-2009

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