june baby

by shannon garvey

In this moving debut novel, set over the course of one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman named Ruth reckons with love, loss, and the choices she must make to move forward. At seventeen, after losing her mother to cancer, Ruth was sent to live with a renowned photographer named Diana Beckett. Block Island became her refuge, a place where she nurtured her dreams of being a writer and fell in love for the first time with Diana’s nephew, Charlie. Now twenty-seven, Ruth has spent ten summers in the wealthy beach town, but when tragedy strikes again, she is forced to confront startling revelations about her past and the women who raised her. Faced with a box of secrets left by Diana, Ruth must decide if she dares to rewrite her story entirely.