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On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Miras mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Miras home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on - to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future. . Gripping and poetic, This Is the Story of You is about the beauty of nature and the power of family, about finding hope in the wake of tragedy and recovery in the face of overwhelming loss.
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I'm the award-winning writer of more than two-dozen books in multiple genres - memoir, middle grade and young adult fiction, picture books, history, corporate fable, and books on the making of memoir. I'm also an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, and an essayist and critic with work appearing in The New York Times, Life magazine, Ninth Letter, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Please visit me at junctureworkshops. com or bethkephartbooks. com.
