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Summer of Reckoning, EPUB eBook

Summer of Reckoning EPUB

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A psychological thriller set in the Luberon, a French region that evokes holidays in magnificent pool-adorned villas.

For those who live there year-round, it often means stifling poverty and boredom.

Sixteen-year-old Celine and her sister Jo, fifteen, dream of escaping to somewhere far from their daily routine, far from their surly, alcoholic father and uncaring mother, both struggling to make ends meet.

That summer Celine falls pregnant, devastating news that reopens deep family wounds.

Those of the mother Severine whose adolescence was destroyed by her early pregnancy and subsequent marriage with Manuel.

Those of the father Manuel, grandson of Spanish immigrants, who takes refuge in alcoholism to escape the open disdain of his in-laws.

Faced with Celine's refusal to name the father of her child, Manuel needs a guilty party and Said, a friend of the girls from an Arab family, fits Manuel's bigoted racial stereotype.

In the suffocating heat of summer he embarks on a drunken mission of revenge.

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