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Unravel

Author(s): Sarah Salisbury

Location(s): Pacific Coast Highway

Genre(s): Coming of Age

Era(s): 2020s

Phoebe Cho has spent a lifetime trying to keep herself afloat in a family which has never been able to find anything but fault with her. But now that she’s finally finished with high school, escape is only a few months away – until a breaking scandal ropes her back in again. When fifteen-year-old Lina Silva’s mother comes forward with the news that a long-ago affair with Phoebe’s televangelist father resulted in a half-sister Phoebe never knew she had, her carefully-balanced attempts at making sense of her dysfunctional family are shattered overnight. The solution? A road trip up the Pacific Coast and three weeks to get to know the sister she’s never met.

Phoebe soon learns that Lina is everything that she is not: bold, outspoken, unabashedly opinionated – and running out of time. And, faced with the news that she only has six months to live, Lina makes it her final mission to help her sister let go of the burden of guilt her family has placed on her before time runs out. But as the sisters grow closer and she gains insight into the tangled web that is her father’s family, Lina has to confront a question with a seemingly-impossible answer: how do you save someone who doesn’t even realize that she’s drowning?

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