Cam Lightsey, who has raised her daughter alone since her
ex-husband left them for a cult, has Aubrey's life planned
out. She's going to college, going to make something of
herself. All she has to do it get her to go to the bank and
sign out the college trust fund that was set up by her
father. She even offers her a GAP YEAR, a year to go do
something before college, but it only pushes them further
apart.
Aubrey Lightsey has other ideas on how she wants to spend
her life and she's tired of her mother constantly degrading
her job at the catering van. Bur most of all she is really
tired of her nasty comments about Tyler Moldenhauer. Yes,
he is a football player and sure he comes from the wrong
side of the tracks but her mom really doesn't know the real
Tyler. The day Aubrey turns 18 she takes out the whole
college fund and disappears.
Cam has no choice but to contact her ex to find out why he
opened up the money for Aubrey and not have it sent to a
college. She decides he owes her. But Martin Lightsey is no
longer in the cult and is flat broke, but he wanted to make
sure that the money would get to Aubrey before he left the
cult. He admits to contact with her via the internet and
wants to help find her and wants to get to know her better.
While the two of them search for Aubrey and Tyler they also
get to know each other again and find that they still have
a lot in common even after 16 years.
THE GAP YEAR is a need to read book for any mother of a
daughter, or daughter of a mother. It's filled with
touching insights to a single mother's world and a
teenager's plan that are not the same as the mother's. Ms.
Bird wrote this book in a way that allows you to see the
year before through Aubrey's eyes and the current year
through her mothers which makes it very easy to put all the
pieces together. You can see the romance start up
innocently between Aubrey and Tyler and the beginning of
the gap that comes between daughter and mother. I would
recommend THE GAP YEAR to any woman of any age.
Cam has raised her daughter Aubrey alone ever since her ex
left to join a cult. But now the bond between mother and
daughter seems to have disappeared. While Cam is frantic to
see Aubrey, a straight-A student, at the perfect college, on
a path that Cam is sure will provide her daughter success
and happiness, Aubrey suddenly shows no interest in her
mother’s plans. Even the promise of an exciting gap year
saving baby seals or bringing clean water to remote villages
hasn’t tempted her. She prefers pursuing a life with her
wrong-side-of-the-tracks football-hero boyfriend and her own
secret hopes.
Both mourn the gap that has grown between them, but Cam and
Aubrey seem locked in a fight without a winner. Can they
both learn how to hold onto dreams . . . and when to let go
to grasp something better? Sarah Bird’s trademark
laugh-out-loud humor joins with the tears that accompany
love in a combination that reveals the fragile yet tough
bonds of mother and daughter.
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