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ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017!The Huffington Post: 2017 Book Preview: 33 Titles To Add To Your ShelfThe Week: 28 books to read in 2017The Millions: The Great 2017 Book PreviewNylon Magazine: 50 Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017Read It Forward: 17 Books We're Excited to Read in 2017 "Fierro doesn't just observe, she knows. Like all great novelists, she gives us the world. " - Amy Bloom, bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods.