The Sisters Chase
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Publisher Description
The hardscrabble Chase women - Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane - have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the family for generations, inviting trouble into their lives for just as long. Eighteen-year-old Mary Chase is a force of nature: passionate, beautiful, and free-spirited. Her much younger sister, Hannah, whom Mary affectionately calls 'Bunny', is imaginative, her head full of the stories of princesses and adventures that Mary tells to give her a safe emotional place in the middle of their troubled world.
But when Diane dies in a car accident, Mary discovers the motel is worth less than the back taxes they owe. With few options, Mary's finely tuned instincts for survival kick in. As the sisters begin a cross-country journey in search of a better life, she will stop at nothing to protect Hannah. But Mary wants to protect herself, too, for the secrets she promised she would never tell - but now may be forced to reveal - hold the weight of unbearable loss. Vivid and suspenseful, The Sisters Chase is a whirlwind page-turner about the extreme lengths one family will go to find - and hold onto - love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Healy's captivating family saga with a tinge of mystery set mostly in the 1980s, Diane Chase and her 18-year-old daughter, Mary, struggle to run the Water's Edge Motel in the seaside town of Sandy Bank, N.J. When Diane dies in a tragic car accident, Mary learns that the motel isn't worth the back taxes they owe. So Mary packs up her much younger sister, Hannah, and they take up a nomadic lifestyle that teaches Mary exactly what she's capable of namely, whatever it takes to provide for and protect Hannah. The sisters eventually settle for a while in Northton, R.I., where Mary reconnects with an old flame. Mary and Hannah are happy for a time, but the past soon catches up with them. Mary is an unforgettable protagonist a fierce and unstoppable force of nature caught in a storm of her own making. Healy (House of Wonder) delivers a heartbreaking story of love, loyalty, and secrets that can never truly be outrun.