The People We Keep

I Loved Everything About The People We Keep.Allison Larkin Has Given Us A Heroine Who Is Raw And Real, A Young Person Capable Of Breaking Your Heart One Moment And Lifting It Up The Next. -Chris Bohjalian, New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Flight Attendant True And Tender-Hearted.Read It! YouLl Be So Glad You Did. -Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times Bestselling Author Of A Well-Behaved Womanlittle River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki Is Living In A Motorless Motorhome That Her Father Won In A Poker Game. Failing Out Of School, Picking Up Shifts At MargoS Diner, SheS Left Fending For Herself In A Town Where SheS Never Quite Felt At Home. When She Borrows Her NeighborS Car To Perform At An Open Mic Night, She Realizes Her Life Could Be Much Bigger Than Where She Came From. After A Fight With Her Dad, April Packs Her Stuff And Leaves For Good, Setting Off On A Journey To Find A Life ThatS All Hers. Driving Without A Chosen Destination, She Stops To Rest In Ithaca. Her Only Plan Is To Survive, But As She Looks For Work, She Finds A Kindred Sense Of Belonging At Cafe Decadence, The Local Coffee Shop. Still, Somehow, It DoesnT Make Sense To Her That Life Could Be This Easy. The More She Falls In Love With Her Friends In Ithaca, The More She CanT Shake The Feeling That SheLl Hurt Them The Way SheS Been Hurt. As April Moves Through The World, Meeting People Who Feel Like Home, She Chronicles Her Life In The Songs She Writes And Discovers That Where She Came From DoesnT Dictate Who She Has To Be. This Lyrical, Unflinching Tale Is For Anyone Who Has Ever Yearned For The Fierce Power Of Found Family Or To Grasp The Profound Beauty Of Choosing To Belong.