Sailing lessons

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Label

Sailing lessons

Statement of responsibility

Hannah McKinnon

Creator

• McKinnon, Hannah
• trueMcKinnon, Hannah Roberts

Author

• McKinnon, Hannah

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• trueDomestic fiction
• trueDysfunctional families
• trueFamilies
• Families -- Fiction
• trueFamily reunions
• trueFamily secrets
• Family secrets -- Fiction
• trueNew England
• trueSailing
• trueSisters
• Sisters -- Fiction
• trueWomen's lives and relationships
• trueFathers and daughters
• Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction
• trueCape Cod, Massachusetts

Genre

• Fiction
• trueWomen's lives and relationships
• trueDomestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Wrenn Bailey has lived all her life on Cape Cod with her mother Lindy, older sister Shannon, and younger sister Piper. Growing up, life was dictated by the seasons with sleepy gray winters where only the locals stayed on, followed by the sharp influx and colorful bustle of summer tourists who swept up the elbow of the Cape and infiltrated their small paradise. But it wasn't just the tourists who interrupted Wrenn's formative years; her father--brilliant but troubled photographer Caleb--has long made a habit of drifting in and out of his girls' lives. Until the one summer he left the Cape and did not return again. Now, almost twenty years later, Caleb has come back one last time, suffering from pancreatic cancer and seeking absolution

Theme

• trueFamily gatherings
• trueUnhappy families

Cataloging source

BKCT

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult