{"id":8969,"date":"2017-08-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T16:28:58","slug":"isnt-family-the-whole-thing-together-really-by-ann-brashares-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8969","title":{"rendered":"Isn’t family The Whole Thing Together, really? by Ann Brashares (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookHis mom, her dad<\/a>,
\nOnce a couple, now a feud,
\nSharing their divisions…<\/p>\n

Imagine knowing (about) someone for your entire childhood and never meeting, ever! “Shared custody” of a beloved vacation home means that Ray (Mom’s kid) and Sasha (Dad’s kid) often see their half-sisters (kids of Mom & Dad), but have never laid eyes on one another till this summer, this fateful summer…<\/p>\n

Ask for The Whole Thing Together<\/em> at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> – hardcover or audiobook – and see how Sasha and Ray learn to interact with each other during dire family troubles.<\/p>\n

Stepfamily and shared sibling stories?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Whole Thing Together \/ Ann Brashares. Delacorte Press, 2017. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: As later-born children of divorced and remarried parents with joint ownership of a Long Island beach house, Sasha and Ray have never met one another, despite years of alternately sharing a bedroom there, until the summer before their senior year when a crisis with their half-sisters brings their family together.<\/p>\n

Why does Ray dream at the beach house and have nightmares back in the city?
\nCan he and Sasha really hold the same job on alternating weeks of summer (half-sister Mattie’s idea)?
\nWhat secret has Emma unearthed about her ever-feuding parents, Ray’s mom and Sasha’s dad?<\/p>\n

This band of siblings must work out how love can keep going when family stories collide with facts, parental bonds are stretched again, and their futures are no longer boringly predictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His mom, her dad, Once a couple, now a feud, Sharing their divisions… Imagine knowing (about) someone for your entire childhood and never meeting, ever! “Shared custody” of a beloved vacation home means that Ray (Mom’s kid) and Sasha (Dad’s kid) often see their half-sisters (kids of Mom & Dad), but have never laid eyes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[90,22,4,75,11,20,5,37,16,18,40,44,43,39,49,184,186,15,21,57,268,73,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-8969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-new-york","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-stepfamily","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8975,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}