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A murder at an idyllic hotel in upstate New York… Clues left behind in love letters… It sounds like the heart of the story, right? But no, the real heart of this one is the narrator, a teenage girl named Mattie Gokey.
Mattie is working at the Glenmore Hotel when Grace Brown's body is found in the lake; her fellow boater, Carl Grahm, has gone missing. As Grace is brought into the hotel and laid out in the parlor, Mattie is stunned, because earlier that day, Grace gave Mattie a bundle of letters, along with instructions to burn them. Because of the unfolding events, Mattie has a hunch that her life is about to drastically change.
The whole novel moves back and forth between present and past. In the present, indicated by untitled chapters, Mattie struggles to make sense of Grace's death by reading Grace's letters. In the past, indicated by chapters titled with one of Mattie's words of the day, Mattie considers how she has come to the point she has in her life: working at the Glenmore Hotel and engaged to Royal Loomis. The two story lines merge when Mattie makes a pretty big decision at the end of her vigil over Grace's body.
The first flashback introduces us to the chaos of the Gokey household: Mattie has to take care of three younger sisters (Abby, Lou, and Beth) while Pa tries to manage the farm as best he can. Mamma died from cancer in December of 1905, and Mattie's older brother, Lawton, abandoned the family a few months afterwards. Mattie struggles to fill the void these absences have left, and she also struggles to figure out a way to make her dream—going to college in New York—a financial reality.
We also meet Weaver Smith and Minnie Compeau, Mattie's two best friends. Minnie is very pregnant and cranky. Weaver shares Mattie's love of language and literature, as well as her dream that there's more to life than Eagle Bay; he too wants to venture to New York and attend college, though he has his own struggles because of his race (he's African American). Further complicating Mattie's life is the interest that Royal Loomis, one of her neighbors, takes in her; he's the second-oldest Loomis boy, and Mattie's got a serious crush on him.
Mattie gets accepted to Barnard College, though she realizes that without money she'll never be able to attend, so Mattie sets out to find ways to fund her dream. First, she asks her wealthy Aunt Josie, for whom she cleans on a weekly basis, but Josie just calls her selfish. And when Mattie tells Royal her dreams, he just wonders why she would want to leave the only home she's ever known. Then he kisses her, and Mattie doesn't really know what she wants. (Romance has a way of muddling our brains.)
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A murder at an idyllic hotel in upstate New York… Clues left behind in love letters… It sounds like the heart of the story, right? But no, the real heart of this one is the narrator, a teenage girl named Mattie Gokey.
Mattie is working at the Glenmore Hotel when Grace Brown's body is found in the lake; her fellow boater, Carl Grahm, has gone missing. As Grace is brought into the hotel and laid out in the parlor, Mattie is stunned, because earlier that day, Grace gave Mattie a bundle of letters, along with instructions to burn them. Because of the unfolding events, Mattie has a hunch that her life is about to drastically change.
The whole novel moves back and forth between present and past. In the present, indicated by untitled chapters, Mattie struggles to make sense of Grace's death by reading Grace's letters. In the past, indicated by chapters titled with one of Mattie's words of the day, Mattie considers how she has come to the point she has in her life: working at the Glenmore Hotel and engaged to Royal Loomis. The two story lines merge when Mattie makes a pretty big decision at the end of her vigil over Grace's body.
The first flashback introduces us to the chaos of the Gokey household: Mattie has to take care of three younger sisters (Abby, Lou, and Beth) while Pa tries to manage the farm as best he can. Mamma died from cancer in December of 1905, and Mattie's older brother, Lawton, abandoned the family a few months afterwards. Mattie struggles to fill the void these absences have left, and she also struggles to figure out a way to make her dream—going to college in New York—a financial reality.
We also meet Weaver Smith and Minnie Compeau, Mattie's two best friends. Minnie is very pregnant and cranky. Weaver shares Mattie's love of language and literature, as well as her dream that there's more to life than Eagle Bay; he too wants to venture to New York and attend college, though he has his own struggles because of his race (he's African American). Further complicating Mattie's life is the interest that Royal Loomis, one of her neighbors, takes in her; he's the second-oldest Loomis boy, and Mattie's got a serious crush on him.
Mattie gets accepted to Barnard College, though she realizes that without money she'll never be able to attend, so Mattie sets out to find ways to fund her dream. First, she asks her wealthy Aunt Josie, for whom she cleans on a weekly basis, but Josie just calls her selfish. And when Mattie tells Royal her dreams, he just wonders why she would want to leave the only home she's ever known. Then he kisses her, and Mattie doesn't really know what she wants. (Romance has a way of muddling our brains.)
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