![]() It’s a popular summer getaway spot, but when fall arrives, the year-round population breathes a sigh of relief and gets back to normal life. The small island of Haven sits just off the New Jersey coast. ![]() Her 2016 young-adult novel This Is The Story of You responds to the devastation caused there by Superstorm Sandy in the autumn of 2012. This Is The Story of A StormĪuthor Beth Kephart has a long and intimate acquaintance with the Jersey Shore. 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. 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. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. ![]() A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. 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. Genres: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, General ![]() Published by Chronicle Books on April 12th 2016 ![]()
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