A mother on a Michigan cherry farm tells her restless daughters a long-ago summer romance while they work the harvest together. The story unfolds slowly, with life happening gently through talk, remembering, and cherishing one another. The novel is portrayed as pandemic-era Edenic, filled with sun-ripe fruit, rescue dogs, and a paused future for one last impossible season. The book is described as indulgently lovely and easy to mock or love, balancing sweetness with hints of traditional domesticity. A second novel, Whistler, follows a high-school English teacher who is pulled back into childhood when her favorite stepfather reappears after decades. Their reunion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art rekindles devotion while surfacing grief over wasted time.
"When the two collide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, they slip back into devotion with an ease that almost feels illicit. But there's also a surge of sunk-cost grief all that wasted time. Somewhere deep inside myself, in a place inaccessible to me since I was nine, Daphne tells us, I had missed him every day of my life."
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