From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club
and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is
heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old
daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment
before college empties the nest.
In The Gap Year, told with perfect pitch from both points of
view, we meet Cam Lightsey, lactation consultant
extraordinaire, a divorcée still secretly carrying a torch
for the ex who dumped her, a suburban misfit who’s given up
her rebel dreams so her only child can get a good education.
We also learn the secrets of Aubrey Lightsey, tired of being
the dutiful, grade-grubbing band geek, ready to explode from
wanting her “real” life to begin, trying to figure out love
with boys weaned on Internet porn.
When Aubrey meets Tyler Moldenhauer, football idol–sex god
with a dangerous past, the fuse is lit. Late-bloomer Aubrey
metastasizes into Cam’s worst silent, sullen teen nightmare,
a girl with zero interest in college. Worse, on the sly
Aubrey’s in touch with her father, who left when she was two
to join a celebrity-ridden nutball cult.
As the novel unfolds—with humor, edge-of-your-seat suspense,
and penetrating insights about love in the twenty-first
century—the dreams of daughter, mother, and father chart an
inevitable, but perhaps not fatal, collision . . .
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