![]() But even his love for his boat becomes fraught when an elderly woman in a wheelchair starts badgering Rusty to take her out for a sail. The only thing that allows Rusty to escape his worries is working on the run-down small sailboat given to him by a sympathetic neighbor ("In my boat there are always things like this that I can do, things I can fix, things I can take care of-unlike some of the other things that I couldn't do anything about ). Rusty, the book's first person narrator, is having a difficult summer: not only is he stuck every morning in summer school, trying to wrangle a passing math grade so he can start sixth grade with the rest of his class, but he's also having to navigate family tensions over his missing mom, who has been sent to a "place for healing" far away from their New England island home (the adult reader recognizes that mom is struggling with major depression). ![]() Content warnings: parental mental illness death (not parental)Īdvance reading copy provided by the author/publisherĪn elegant, elegiac celebration of a short but deeply meaningful relationship between two people who happen to be in just the right place at just the right moment when each desperately needs a friend. ![]()
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