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Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a difficult and familiar predicament--unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her mothers diagnosis with cancer, Marias decision to give her daughter up for adoption is one that seems to be in everyones best interest, especially when it comes to light that the childs father hasnt exactly been faithful to her following the birth of her daughter. So when her mother proposes an extended trip to sleepy coastal town Beaufort--the same town that the adoptive couple Maria chose for her daughter just happens to live in--Maria jumps at the chance to escape.Perhaps not surprisingly, Maria finds herself listless and bored soon after her arrival in Beaufort, and a summer job seems like a cure.
About the Author
Nic Brown is the author of In Every Way, Doubles, and Floodmarkers, which was selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Harvard Review, Garden & Gun, Glimmer Train, and Epoch, among many other publications. A graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has been the John and Renee Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi and currently teaches at Clemson University.
