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Violence
Barely any
A boating accident and a hurricane are recounted as past events
Language
Barely any
Mild for the genre
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minor romantic subplot, nothing beyond kissing
Substance Use
A lot
Saylor's mother's addiction (including a fatal heroin overdose) is central, and the book depicts normalized teen party drinking, including Saylor herself drinking to the point of throwing up
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Grief over a mother lost to addiction, and reconciling two very different sides of a fractured family, anchor the emotional arc
What this book is about
Sent to stay with her maternal grandmother at a lakeside resort town, Emma Saylor pieces together the truth about her mother, who died of a heroin overdose when Saylor was young, and the two very different families that shaped her.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Mother's death by heroin overdose is a central plot point
Normalized teen drinking, including the protagonist becoming sick from alcohol
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