SuitabookInherited history and personal choice
Lynnie uncovers secrets, loves and tragedies connected with earlier generations and considers what those discoveries mean for her own future.
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Barbara Hall - Author
This is a family mystery built through letters and remembered events. Its emotional centre is Lynnie’s attempt to understand her parents and grandparents without assuming that a troubled family past fixes her identity.
At the age of 16, it's standard procedure for every girl at Lynnie Russo's posh Los Angeles prep school to get a car. So on her 16th birthday, Lynnie is startled when she opens the small gift box from her father--it doesn't contain the shiny new set of keys she was expecting. Instead she finds a worn-out bird charm bracelet. What can he be thinking? When she cuts school to go try surfing so as to have a special day, instead of grounding her, her father hands her a manuscript box and says, "Your mother wanted you to have this when it seemed you were losing perspective. I think now's the time."Through "The Noah Confessions," Lynnie uncovers her family's secrets, loves, and tragedies, and comes to recognize that their past may not necessarily determine her future.From the Hardcover edition.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a family mystery built through letters and remembered events. Its emotional centre is Lynnie’s attempt to understand her parents and grandparents without assuming that a troubled family past fixes her identity.
Lynnie uncovers secrets, loves and tragedies connected with earlier generations and considers what those discoveries mean for her own future.
Letters and family revelations lead Lynnie towards the truth about a murder and her relatives’ knowledge or involvement.
Lynnie is presented as both confident and insecure, while letters and an extended flashback reveal family events through more than one viewpoint.
The central material warrants a little preparation: the story includes a grandfather killing a young woman, family concealment, a near-death experience and a confrontation involving Lynnie’s deceased mother.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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