The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Macy’s father died a couple of years ago and since then she has worked to live as perfectly as possible to keep everything in her life from falling apart. She has buried all of her feelings and tried to live up to her mother’s expectations: being a good student, having the perfect, smart boyfriend and following all of the rules. In Macy’s mind, living perfectly means that everything is safe. Now summer is about to begin and it looks like everything will go as planned. Macy’s boyfriend, Jason, is going away to ‘Brain Camp’, which is just a summer camp for smart, high achieving kids, and Macy is staying home. She is going to spend the summer filling in for Jason at his job at the library and studying for the SAT.
But then some unexpected things happen. Macy is offered a new opportunity to work for Wish, a little catering business that needs the extra help. She makes some interesting new friends and slowly begins to see what she is missing by living perfectly. Then Macy’s sistser starts visiting and sharing her plans to remodel the family beach house, which hasn’t been visited since their father died. Both of these things challenge Macy’s perfectly constructed safe life and makes her reconsider the choices she has made since her dad’s death. Will Macy step out and live life or will she stifle her new thoughts and feelings and continue to live perfectly?
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