WHAT COMES AFTER THE MOMENT THAT FOREVER CHANGES YOUR
LIFE?
This is the question that haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine,
and Kim Colella, the only survivors of a terrible boating
accident off the coast of Maine that claimed the lives of
nine other people.
Julia, a forty-year-old wife and mother, has always taken
the path of least resistance. Pigeonholed by her
controlling family and increasingly distant husband
as "loyal" and "obedient," she realizes in the aftermath of
her brush with death that there is more to her -- and to
the world around her -- than she ever imagined.
Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding
lobsterman who helped save her life, and to Kim, a twenty-
one-year-old whose role in the accident and subsequent
muteness are a mystery, Julia begins to explore the unique
possibilities offered by the quiet island of Big Sawyer,
Maine. Suddenly, things that once seemed critical lose
significance, and things that seemed inconsequential take
on a whole new importance. With each passing moment, each
new discovery, Julia grows more sure that after coming face-
to-face with death, she must have more from life.
Resolving to make things right for the future and drawing
on an inner strength she never knew she possessed, Julia
passionately awakens to a new world, fearlessly embracing
uncertainties in a way she couldn't have imagined only a
few weeks ago.
Set in a beautifully rendered island off the coast of
Maine, where lobstermen leave with the tides each morning
to haul and reset their traps, and neighbors gather each
night to feast on the catch of the day, Barbara Delinsky's
The Summer I Dared is a deeply moving story of the
risky but rewarding search for self, a story of survival,
and of the irrepressible ability of the human spirit to
rebound from disaster and to create life anew.
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