Details are careful and never extraneous there’s a reason it matters, at a certain moment, that “the milk was perfectly cold and the bananas not too ripe” in a bowl of cereal. Her relationship with Miles is stolid and understatedly touching. Ben was disabled (maybe autistic), and their relationship was sometimes difficult. Leo and Cedar research-and give unauthorized tours about-a long-dead, famous actress from the town Cedar’s pulled by that research because she knows, now, that things can disappear forever. As Cedar gets a job selling concessions at the Shakespeare festival, makes a friend named Leo, and finds herself and Miles obsessed with a morbid soap-opera arc on TV, Condie touches everything lightly but deftly with the family’s grief. It’s been a year since a drunk driver killed Cedar’s father and other little brother, Ben. Mom buys a summer house for herself, 12-year-old Cedar, and 8-year-old Miles in Iron Creek, where Mom grew up. A year after losing two family members, a girl spends the summer in a small town with a Shakespeare festival.
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