The People we Keep

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Larkin, Allie.	4-week checkout	Due 04-25-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Larkin, Allison	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Larkin, Allison	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024

"Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape together a meaningful existence as she travels, encountering people and places she's never dreamed of, and could never imagine deserving. From lifelong friendships to tragic heartbreaks, April chronicles her journey in the beautiful music she creates as she discovers that home is with the people you choose to keep. "Allison Larkin knows her characters so well," (Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor Park) and brings her "tender, and real" (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones The Six) prose to this unflinching, lyrical tale that is perfect for anyone who has ever yearned for the fierce power of belonging or to understand the profound beauty of a family found along the way"-- Provided by publisher.

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Not what I was expecting submitted by emtuft on July 10, 2023, 5:36pm The story and character were fine, but not my very favorite. My favorite part was the wrap up at the end addressing the main message of the book (the people we keep). It felt different than the rest of the book to me.
I expected the message to be more prevalent throughout and the story to illustrate it a bit better.
I read “Under the Magnolias” not long after and think it’s story is more of what I was expecting from this based on this book’s title.

In a lot of ways, the story, attitudes and tones reminded me of at least how I felt as I read “Where The Crawdads Sing,” so maybe those who loved that book would love this story a bit better than I did.