SuitabookA close relationship under pressure
Alec and Walker are inseparable at first, but their summer choices and experiences pull them in different directions.
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Maggie Stiefvater - Author
Morgan Beem - Author
This is a dark summer story about twin brothers whose close relationship is tested by contrasting choices, a laboratory experiment, rural family life and troubling secrets connected with the past.
Twins Alec and Walker Holland have a reputation around town. One is quiet and the other is the life of any party, but they are inseparable. For their last summer before college, the two leave the city to live with their rural cousins, where they find that the swamp holds far darker depths than they could have imagined. While Walker carves their names into the new social scene, Alec recedes into a summer school laboratory, because he brought something from home on their trip—it’s an experiment that will soon consume him. This season, both brothers must confront truths, ancient and familial, and as their lives diverge, tensions increase and dormant memories claw to the surface.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a dark summer story about twin brothers whose close relationship is tested by contrasting choices, a laboratory experiment, rural family life and troubling secrets connected with the past.
Alec and Walker are inseparable at first, but their summer choices and experiences pull them in different directions.
Both brothers must confront ancient and familial truths while dormant memories return.
Be ready to discuss how the brothers respond when their lives diverge, and whether secrecy, memory and family expectations affect their choices.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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