The Second Home

After a disastrous summer spent at her family summer home on Cape Cod,seventeen-year-old Ann Gordon was left with a secret that changed her life foreverand created a rift between her sisterPoppyand their adopted brotherMichael. Nowfifteen years laterher parents have diedleaving Ann and Poppy to decide the fate of the Wellfleet home that’s been in the Gordon family for generations. For Annthe once-beloved house is tainted with bad memories. Poppy loves the old saltboxbut after years spent chasing waves around the worldshe isn’t sure she knows how to stay in one place. Just when the sisters decide to sellMichael re-enters their lives with a legitimate claim to the house. But more than thathe wants to set the record straight about that long ago summer. Reunited after years apartthese very different siblings must decide if they can continue to be a family-and the house just might be the glue that holds them together. Told through the shifting perspectives of AnnPoppyand Michaelthis assured and affecting debut captures the ache of nostalgia for summers past and the powerful draw of the places we return to again and again. It is about second homessecond familiesand second chances. Tender and compassionateincisive and heartbreakingThe Second Home is the story of a family you’ll quickly fall in love withand won’t soon forget.