The Shore: a Novel
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Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But the family's future becomes precarious when Brian develops a brain tumor, transforming into an erratic version of himself. Amidst the chaos and new caretaking responsibilities, Liz still seeks out summer adventure and flirting with a guy she should know better than to pursue. Her younger sister Evy works in a candy shop, falls in love with her friend Olivia, and secretly adopts the persona of a middle-aged mom in an online support group, where she discovers her own mother's vulnerable confessions. Meanwhile, Margot faces an impossible choice driven by grief, impulse, and the ways that small-town life has shaped her. Falling apart is not an option, but she can always pack up and leave the beach behind.
"An emotional family drama...with endearing characters and deep insights" (Glamour), The Shore is a heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting novel infused with humor about finding sisterhood, friendship, and love in a time of crisis. This big-hearted novel examines the grit and hustle of running a small business in a tourist town, the ways we connect with strangers when our families can't give us everything we need, and the comfort found in embracing the pleasures of youth while coping with unimaginable loss.
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Katie Runde. (2022). The Shore: a Novel. Scribner.
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- A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of secrets in this "deeply felt family saga" (Entertainment Weekly) hailed as "one of the best beach reads of all time" (Today).
Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But the family's future becomes precarious when Brian develops a brain tumor, transforming into an erratic version of himself. Amidst the chaos and new caretaking responsibilities, Liz still seeks out summer adventure and flirting with a guy she should know better than to pursue. Her younger sister Evy works in a candy shop, falls in love with her friend Olivia, and secretly adopts the persona of a middle-aged mom in an online support group, where she discovers her own mother's vulnerable confessions. Meanwhile, Margot faces an impossible choice driven by grief, impulse, and the ways that small-town life has shaped her. Falling apart is not an option, but she can always pack up and leave the beach behind.
"An emotional family drama...with endearing characters and deep insights" (Glamour), The Shore is a heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting novel infused with humor about finding sisterhood, friendship, and love in a time of crisis. This big-hearted novel examines the grit and hustle of running a small business in a tourist town, the ways we connect with strangers when our families can't give us everything we need, and the comfort found in embracing the pleasures of youth while coping with unimaginable loss. - reviews
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December 1, 2021
Examining colonialism, art history, and greed, Jonasson's Sweet, Sweet Revenge LTD brings together Maasai warrior Ole Mbatian Jr.; Kevin, the young man he calls his son: and trod-upon Agneta, who joins forces with Kevin against an underhanded gallery owner with the help of a Stockholm company specializing in revenge services (originally scheduled for July 2021; 60,000-copy first printing). Successful realtors serving tourists at The Shore, Brian and Margot Dunne face a different kind of summer in Runde's debut; even as daughters Liz and Evy seek self-redefining experiences, the entire family struggles with the tragedy of Brian's brain tumor (125,000-copy first printing). In Straub's This Time Tomorrow, Alice is reasonably contented but wishes she were closer to her father, and she gets the chance at a remake when she wakes up one morning in 1996 as a 16-year-old. In Weiner's latest, when Veronica Levy bought The Summer Place on the Outer Cape, she imagined it staying in the family for generations. But with the family now dispersed, she gathers everyone together for one last blow-out summer until she sells it (350,000-copy first printing).
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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A father’s cancer diagnosis upends his family’s life in Runde’s vivid if unfocused debut. Brian and Margot Dunne made a living renting homes to tourists in Seaside, N.J., until a brain tumor sidelined Brian, making him irritable, confused, and unrecognizable to his family. Eight months after the diagnosis, Margot is struggling to care for him while running the business, and she dreams of leaving everything behind. Their 17-year-old daughter, Liz, meanwhile, cultivates an interest in her charming but self-absorbed coworker at an umbrella rental stand, and 16-year-old Evy discovers Margot posts in an online forum for wives whose partners have brain tumors, and then joins under an assumed identity to reconnect with her. As Brian’s health deteriorates, Margot makes a rash decision, and it’s up to Evy to bring her family back together. Runde’s evocative descriptions conjure the salty humidity of the Jersey Shore (“They stayed out until the waves were dark, pulsing shadows, until the last streak of red-gold sun rushed out of the sky”), but some narrative threads feel extraneous, such as the romance between Evy and her classmate. Though uneven, this transportive work successfully captures the dissonance and resilience of family. Agent: Elisabeth Weed, Book Group.
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A summer at the shore turns real for a family experiencing loss and love at the same time. Margot and Brian Dunne, who've been married forever and are the parents of teenagers Liz and Evy, run a chain of rental houses in Seaside, on the Jersey shore. Former teachers, the couple worked their way up from modest circumstances and lead a life many would consider ideal. Brian's tortuous descent into anger and oblivion--the agonizing results of a growing brain tumor--marks the course of an emotionally tumultuous summer for the family. Margot shoulders the burden of operating the family business with help from Liz and Evy, who are also continuing their own work: passing from adolescence to adulthood (with the attendant insecurity and heartache that process brings). While maintaining a united front to the outside world, the three women deal with familial misunderstandings and secrets, all now freighted with added urgency in light of Brian's decline. Margot shares her fears and plans on an online forum, unaware that her internet-savvy girls are, maybe, one step ahead of her there. Liz and Evy don't know what they don't know about their parents' relationship over the years despite internet and household sleuthing. Runde's sympathetic portrait of a family in crisis is not without humor and insight: The brigade of well-meaning friends and neighbors who support the family with a never-ending supply of IDCs (Inevitable Death Casseroles) is just one finely drawn target here. An epigraph from Springsteen's "Born to Run" places Runde's account of abandonment, loneliness, and recovery firmly on the Jersey shore and among its yearning populace. Runde's family story is sweet, sad, and surprising.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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After Hurricane Sandy, the Dunnes are well acquainted with rebuilding beginnings along the boardwalk and salty air in Seaside Heights, N.J. Then another tragedy rocks their home, one that requires much more than perseverance and the right wallpaper: Brian Dunne has a brain tumor. His health rapidly deteriorates during the summer, and his wife, Margot, struggles to manage their real-estate business alone. From the start, she braces for the inevitable and seeks to keep moving, emotionally and physically. In contrast, their teenage daughters, Evy and Liz, hold onto the present, reveling in blossoming romances, jobs, and parties in between caregiving. But grief manifests in different ways. Liz delves into Brian's music collection and discovers her parents' first email exchanges. Evy writes on an online forum for women whose husbands have her father's illness, where her mother also receives support from strangers. Soon Evy uncovers a startling secret about the Dunnes' marriage and what Margot plans to do after Brian's death. A comforting debut on family and finding resilience in the face of sorrow.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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DEBUT Summer is heating up in Seaside, NJ. The beaches are open, the sun is shining, and the boardwalk is filled with tourists with cash to spend. Brian and Margot Dunne's summer rentals are filled with Airbnb guests, and they are busier than ever. Their 17-year-old daughter Liz is busy renting umbrellas on the beach and flirting with Gabe. Their younger daughter, 16-year-old Evy, is selling candy and falling in love with a girl named Olivia. Then a cloud passes over the Dunne family. Brian begins to decline and is eventually diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Words start to fail Brian, even as he writes them on slips of paper throughout the house: enter, embark, embarrass. Margot, Liz, and Evy contend with loss: of normal, of family, and soon of Brian. Over the course of the summer, they must come to terms and find a new way to go on. VERDICT Runde's debut is a heartbreaking family journey; a summer read that is at once sad, hopeful, frustrating, and ultimately uplifting.--Susan Santa
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