I started following Laura Silverman on Twitter because of her editing services and realized I should probably read her novel before thinking about hiring her to help with mine. I am so glad I did, because this is a great story.
Anise is stunned to learn she has to learn her Santa Cruz home, her friends, and especially her surfboard, for an entire summer in Nebraska. Her father insists they need to help take care of her young cousins while their mom recovers from a car accident. She turns her nose up at the landlocked state and looks down on the local skateboarders, until she meets Lincoln. He teaches her how to skateboard and to appreciate who and what she has in her life.
As the summer stretches on, Anise stops talking to her friends back home, afraid that they're too busy having fun to think about her. She's afraid of what's going to happen to her new friendship with Lincoln when she goes back to Santa Cruz. But more than anything, Anise is terrified that she's just like her mother, who's popped in and out of her life, always flitting through life without worrying about the people she's left behind.
I really enjoyed this story, especially the detailed descriptions of both surfing and skateboarding. If I was ten years younger, I might try both!
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