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The Beach Trees


A General Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Family Secrets,
  • Southern Fiction,
  • Found Family
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Stories where inheritance leads to unexpected family secrets
  • Southern settings with art, memory, and second chances
  • Narratives about found family after personal loss
Publisher Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes the story of one woman's journey into a secret past—and a life she never expected on the ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi....

Working at an auction house in New York, Julie Holt meets a struggling artist and single mother who reminds her very much of her missing younger sister. Monica Guidry paints a vivid picture of her Southern family through stories, but never says why or how she lost contact with them. And she has another secret: a heart condition that will soon take her life.

Feeling as if she's lost her sister a second time, Julie inherits from Monica an antique portrait—as well as custody of her young son. Taking him to Biloxi, Mississippi, to meet the family he's never known, Julie discovers a connection of her own. The portrait, of an old Guidry relative, was done by her great-grandfather—and unlocks a surprising family history....

INCLUDES A READERS GUIDE AND AN EXCERPT OF DREAMS OF FALLING

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