Susanburton's Reviews > Goldengrove

This is a novel of coming to terms with grief told by a thirteen year old named Nico. One afternoon her older sister and she were floating in their boat on the lake which they did often. Her sister dove in and due to a congenital heart failure drowned. Her parents were so grief stricken as was Aaron, her sister’s boyfriend that she had to navigate through her mourning alone.
Her struggles, decisions, indecisions, hopes, and fears are all explicitly told in this touching and healing story. I would recommend this book for anyone, especially a teenager who has gone through a recent death. It explores all the phases of mourning in such a real and uncompromising way that her plight is your plight.
Goldengrove is the book store her father owns. It plays an important role in the healing process for the whole family