Moderator---Dee Dee
The story opens in 1935 with Lucy, one of the three Evans girls, wanting to write down the story of what happened that summer. Sixty plus years have past and she, the middle child, is the last one alive. Lilith is dead, and Emily was last seen that summer. Lucy is leaving her estate, which includes the summer house that she has lived in as a permanent residence since 1935, to her grandniece Justine.
There are a variety of characters in the book whose individual personalities keep them unique and add to the story. Published in 2016, the story spans many decades with the first girls, then LIlith's daughter, Maurie, and finally Justine and her daughters. Their lives are examined and all seemed to be coming up short with moving forward. Lucy and Lilith never leave the summer home, Maurie never stays in one place but moving around doesn't add to her life, and Justine involves herself with a needy man who hangs on to her in a suffocating way. The reader begins to understand each of them and the reasons and family secrets that led to decisions.
Author Heather Young sums it up nicely: "The Lost Girls is a haunting debut novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, and the meaning of salvation through the voices of two women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a beautiful, decaying lake house."
Lake House Luncheon:
Fried chicken, corn, tater tots,
bread, chocolate cookies
and fig newtons.
"The domino effect of one sad decision
made in haste is at the heart of this story."--- Dee Dee
"A summer of sisters and the
loss of their innocence."--- Kathy
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