The Road to Abilene - Moser, Karri L.

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Résumé :
16-year-old Abilene Marigold Matterly spends summer 1992 escaping her chaotic home life by sneaking out at night to wander Holden, South Carolina with her best and only friend, Julien. That summer, they have each other and not much else. As summer winds down, a family tragedy reveals Abilene's past is nothing but a myth. The truth sends Abilene searching for her father, a U.S. Army Soldier, even though running to him means leaving Julien behind. As that summer fades from their memories and they start anew without each other, they drift apart. Their rift only deepens when Abilene falls in love with a young soldier and Julien battles for survival in an abusive home. Years later, Abilene is a young Army wife and mother determined to make her marriage work, a marriage filled with physical passion and not much else. When Julien enlists in the Army and walks back into her life, she's surprised by how much their connection and that summer friendship meant to her, then and now. As they navigate being back in each other's lives, Abilene begins to question if the stability she has with a husband who takes care of her is enough or if that summer with Julien was what love is supposed to be....

Biographie:
Karri L. Moser is an Army wife and daughter who has collected character and setting ideas from her travels in a military family. She currently lives in Maine and spends her time writing, gardening, snowshoeing, and bumming around the coastal tourist traps she loves, all with a hot hazelnut coffee in hand.Karri is the author of four other novels-The Weathering of Sea Glass, Moose Pond Lodge, The Thriving of Willows, and A Home for the Windswept. She has also written for newspapers, magazines, marketing firms, and the U.S. Army Medical Recruiting Brigade.The Road to Abilene is her first novel that is based on her life in a military family....

Sommaire:
16-year-old Abilene Marigold Matterly spends summer 1992 escaping her chaotic home life by sneaking out at night to wander Holden, South Carolina with her best and only friend, Julien. That summer, they have each other and not much else. As summer winds down, a family tragedy reveals Abilene's past is nothing but a myth. The truth sends Abilene searching for her father, a U.S. Army Soldier, even though running to him means leaving Julien behind. As that summer fades from their memories and they start anew without each other, they drift apart. Their rift only deepens when Abilene falls in love with a young soldier and Julien battles for survival in an abusive home. Years later, Abilene is a young Army wife and mother determined to make her marriage work, a marriage filled with physical passion and not much else. When Julien enlists in the Army and walks back into her life, she's surprised by how much their connection and that summer friendship meant to her, then and now. As they navigate being back in each other's lives, Abilene begins to question if the stability she has with a husband who takes care of her is enough or if that summer with Julien was what love is supposed to be....