A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after their mother is deported in this alluring comingofage novel that movingly tackles serious issues in one of Americas premier vacation spots (NPR). Gabriella Burnham knows . . . the Nantucket of undocumented immigrants and broken families. . . . This tender novel allows us to rejoice when tiny windows of opportunities begin to open.Imbolo Mbue, The New York Times Book ReviewA VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARElise is out dancing the night before her college graduation when her younger sister, Sophie, calls to tell her that their mom is nowhere to be found. Elise leaves on the next flight back to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly four years.The sisters soon learn that their mother was stopped by police on her way home from work and deported to So Paulo, Brazil. Intent on bringing her mother back, Elise stays and secures the same job she had in high school monitoring endangered birds. Meanwhile, her best friend from college, Shebaa gregarious socialite and heir to a famed childrens toy companyreveals that she has inherited her grandfathers summer mansion on Nantucket. Elises worlds collide as she confronts the emotional and material conditions that have fractured her family, as well as the life in Brazil that her mother has had to leave behind.Told with penetrating insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Wait is a story about a family swimming...

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 316 g; Dimensions: 202 x 132 x 18

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