“A warm, wise, strange meditation on developing the strength to be vulnerable.”- Kirkus Reviews
Violet emerges as a genuine, sympathetic protagonist struggling to create something new from the wreckage of her life.”- Publisher’s Weekly This book contains mentions of a suicide attempt. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century.
Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn’t drown like the rest of the passengers. At least that’s what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. The Larkin family isn’t just lucky-they persevere. What is The Last True Poets of the Sea about?
To get ready for the conversation, we’ve compiled some introductory information on this moving coming-of-age novel about finding oneself among the wreckage. The Folger’s virtual book club, Words, Words, Words continues on Thursday, August 5 with a discussion of Julia Drake’s The Last True Poets of the Sea.
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