Cicada Summer
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In this moving, witty novel, author Maureen Leurck explores the intricacies and joys of renovation and rediscovery—as one woman's improvement project promises to transform much more than a home . . .
People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she's bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She's also experienced the thrill of making each one into a home. Her newest project is a dilapidated,
century-old house just a few blocks from Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Time and neglect, along with rats and raccoons, have ravaged it inside and out. Only Alex can see the beauty of what it once was and might become again. In just a few weeks—by the time the cicadas make their scheduled reappearance after seventeen years underground—the house should be ready to sell. In the meantime, there are construction disasters, and surprises, to contend with.
Amid overgrown grounds and rooms brimming with debris, Alex finds treasures—pocket doors, hardwood floors hidden beneath layers of linoleum and grime—and carved initials that reveal a long-ago love story involving Alex's elderly neighbor, Elsie, and another cicada summer. At the same time, Alex finds herself searching for a way to reconcile her new life with lingering feelings for her ex-husband. For so long she felt sure that moving on was the only option, but maybe this house, and everything she's learning in it, could give Alex room for a second chance . . .
"A captivating novel about the power of redemption."
—Jen Lancaster, New York Times bestselling author
People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she's bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She's also experienced the thrill of making each one into a home. Her newest project is a dilapidated,
century-old house just a few blocks from Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Time and neglect, along with rats and raccoons, have ravaged it inside and out. Only Alex can see the beauty of what it once was and might become again. In just a few weeks—by the time the cicadas make their scheduled reappearance after seventeen years underground—the house should be ready to sell. In the meantime, there are construction disasters, and surprises, to contend with.
Amid overgrown grounds and rooms brimming with debris, Alex finds treasures—pocket doors, hardwood floors hidden beneath layers of linoleum and grime—and carved initials that reveal a long-ago love story involving Alex's elderly neighbor, Elsie, and another cicada summer. At the same time, Alex finds herself searching for a way to reconcile her new life with lingering feelings for her ex-husband. For so long she felt sure that moving on was the only option, but maybe this house, and everything she's learning in it, could give Alex room for a second chance . . .
"A captivating novel about the power of redemption."
—Jen Lancaster, New York Times bestselling author
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Maureen Leurck. (2017). Cicada Summer. Kensington Books.
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People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she's bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She's also experienced the thrill of making each one into a home. Her newest project is a dilapidated,
century-old house just a few blocks from Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Time and neglect, along with rats and raccoons, have ravaged it inside and out. Only Alex can see the beauty of what it once was and might become again. In just a few weeks—by the time the cicadas make their scheduled reappearance after seventeen years underground—the house should be ready to sell. In the meantime, there are construction disasters, and surprises, to contend with.
Amid overgrown grounds and rooms brimming with debris, Alex finds treasures—pocket doors, hardwood floors hidden beneath layers of linoleum and grime—and carved initials that reveal a long-ago love story involving Alex's elderly neighbor, Elsie, and another cicada summer. At the same time, Alex finds herself searching for a way to reconcile her new life with lingering feelings for her ex-husband. For so long she felt sure that moving on was the only option, but maybe this house, and everything she's learning in it, could give Alex room for a second chance . . .
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Leurck reveals the hidden depths of one woman’s heart as she struggles with loneliness and the fact that she still harbors feelings for her ex-husband. Alex Proctor has lived in the resort town of Geneva Lake, Wisc., her entire life and enjoys her work seeking out old homes and restoring them for sale. Her latest find is a hundred-year-old home not far from the popular resort destination of Lake Geneva. Taking her five-year-old daughter, Abby, to visit Matt, her ex-husband, Alex recalls how she and Matt gradually drifted apart as their once-happy marriage ended in divorce. Yet she finds it difficult to move on and struggles with her emotions now that Matt is with a new girlfriend. Alex encounters unexpected setbacks to finishing her restoration of the house and enjoys the friendship of Elsie, who has lived next door to the home her whole life and tells tales of happier times when the house was in its prime. As Alex remembers the summer 17 years earlier when the soon-to-arrive cicadas last appeared, she tries to come to terms with the difficulties of her past with Matt and forge ahead toward a new future. Rich with believable characters and an evocative setting, Leurck’s novel is a gem.
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