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A little ray of sunshine / Kristan Higgins.
"A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, 'Guess what? I'm your son.' The one you put up for adoption eightteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew Walker, and he's come to spend the summer on the Cape with his parents. Why? Well, he wants to meet you before he heads off to college in the fall. Tiny detail: he didn't tell his adoptive parents about his plan. And while you hoped this day would come someday, you're so stunned, you actually faint. You're overjoyed (and stunned) and worried (and stunned) and you've yearned to meet him, but you didn't know it would be like this. Did you mention feeling stunned?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593547601 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 498 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2023.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes discussion questions. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Adopted children > Fiction. Birthmothers > Fiction. Bookstores > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Cape Cod (Mass.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Higgi | 31681010325744 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted--a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life--when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew Walker, and he's come to spend the summer on the Cape with his parents. Why? Well, he wants to meet you before he heads off to college in the fall. Tiny detail--he didn't tell his adoptive parents about his plan. And while you hoped this day would come someday, you're so stunned, you actually faint. You're overjoyed (and stunned) and worried (and stunned) and you've yearned to meet him, but you didn't know it would be like this. Did you mention feeling stunned? Even more gobsmacked is your family. The Smiths looked like (and thought they were) the perfect family in town. How could Harlow, the 'boring sister' who runs the bookstore with her dotty old grandfather, have a secret baby? How did she keep this secret for so long? More than the truth of that baby will come out over the summer ahead, a summer filled with emotion as more than one secret is revealed, long-lost hurts are discovered...and one slightly lost soul realizes the best of everything is yet to come"-- - Baker & Taylor
A young man shocks his adoptive mother by flying to Cape Cod and walking unannounced into the bookstore owned by his birth mother and her grandfather and surprising them, forcing both women into addressing their assumptions about motherhood. - Penguin Putnam
A kid walks into your bookstore and… Guess what? Heâs your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise!
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And a huge surprise it is.
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Itâs a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he could meet his birth mother…without a word to either her or his dad.
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Itâs also a surpriseâ to say the leastâto Harlow, the woman who secretly placed her baby for adoption so many years ago. Sheâs spent the years since then building a quiet life. She runs a bookstore with her grandfather, hangs out with her four younger siblings and is more or less happily single, though she canât help gravitating toward Grady Byrne, her old friend from high school. Heâs moved back to town, four-year-old daughter in tow, no wife in the picture. But sheâs always figured her life had to be child-free, so that complicates things.
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When Matthew walks into Harlowâs store, she faints. Monica panics. And all their assumptionsâabout what being a parent really meansâexplode. This summer will be full of more surprises as both their families are redefined…and as both women learn that for them, thereâs no limit to a motherâs love.
