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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Excellent book. Narrated by a dead person but a fun book. Nice old people ( ) Thank you to Goodreads, the publisher and the author. This book was told from Julia, 37 years old, in her afterlife. It was funny and sad at the same time. I didn't know if I wanted to cry or laugh in places and I think I laughed until I cried and cried until I laughed in many places. I loved that she was observing her husband Ben and her friends on Fire Island and commenting and noone hearing her thoughts and being āthereā with them. Poor Ben was so devastated but he had a lot of support (that's if he accepted it) from Fire Islanders (my word not the authors) and just wanted to be left alone with his grief. All the characters were good and the author gave ample space to all of them. This is a story of Julia and Ben - who loved each other fiercely, until Julia died. After/during shiva, Julia decides she isn't ready to go into the afterlife, so she (her spirit) follows Ben to their beloved Fire Island and she watches Ben and her friends deal with her passing, and go on with their lives. She reminisces about all the good times and the friendships. She watches the children, the ball games, the friends moving on. It is a nice way to tell the tale of grief, told from the perspective of the one who dies. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:"Dazzling...as funny as it is poignant, nostalgic as it is sharp." ā??Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A Shoe Story. As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories. Whether with her pen to a manuscript or curled up with a book while at her beloved Fire Island cottage, her imagination alight with a good tale, she could anticipate practically any ending. The ending sheā??d never imagined was her own. To be fair, no one expects to die at thirty-seven. So when the unthinkable happens to Julia, rather than following the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, she chooses to spend one last summer near those she loves most. As she follows her adoring, novelist husband Ben to theirā??unexpectedly fullā??home on Fire Island, she discovers the ripple affect her life has had on the trajectory of so many: her baseball loving, young-at-heart neighbor who believes itā??s best not to go it alone, two bright-eyed teenagers eager to become adults, and her best friend who must shake off heartbreak for a new chance at love. With poignant comedy and insight, On Fire Island is an ode to the stories all around us and to the brightest types of lovesā?¦for the people closest to you and the plac No library descriptions found. |
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