Sherri Griffin has simply moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts, along with her daughter, Katie, and has one way or the other gotten her a spot in one of many extra coveted summer season surf day camps, a lot to the shock of the long-term city mothers. The primary day of camp marks the start of Sherri’s and Katie’s particular person efforts to make new mates and redefine themselves—Sherri among the many Mother Squad, aka The Group, which guidelines the social scene among the many rising sixth grade mother and father of their little city, and Katie amongst these mothers’ daughters. Creator Moore gives a comparatively commonplace narrative construction of rotating between various important characters’ factors of view to inform the story. Along with Sherri and her murky previous, there may be Rebecca Coleman, a second grade trainer on summer season break who’s scuffling with grief over the sudden dying of her husband 18 months earlier than, guilt over her need to make new mates and begin relationship, and irritation at her outdated mates; and Alexa Thornhill, Rebecca’s 17-year-old daughter, who’s planning for her submit–highschool future on her phrases and never these of her mom. Refreshingly, nevertheless, Moore additionally employs a breezy type to share the gossipy really feel of the groupthink of the Mother Squad as an extra perspective. It is a e-book that tiptoes between genres. Is it a thriller? A thriller? A teen coming-of-age exegesis? A seaside learn that leans into a possible romantic fairy-tale ending? Surprisingly, the story components that efficiently create narrative rigidity and draw the reader by the quantity are discarded on the shut. As an alternative, the reader is given an ending that’s as capricious as life itself.
