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\nMy Friends by Fredrik Ba ckman.
\n"#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Back man\, who "captures the messy essence of being human" (The Washington Post )\, returns with an unforgettably funny\, deeply moving tale of four teena gers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a strange r's life twenty-five years later. Most people don't even notice them-three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of th e most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depict ion of the sea. But Louisa\, an artist herself\, knows otherwise and she i s determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twent y-five years earlier\, in a distant town\, a group of teenagers find refug e from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and tell ing stories out on a pier. There's Joar\, who never backs down from a figh t\; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father\; Ali\, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long\; and finally\, there's the artist\, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention\, but who po ssesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. T hese four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning\, a reason to dream. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art\, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa's care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest\, she embark s on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting's birthplace\, t he more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit\, but happy endings don't always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to t he transformative power of friendship and art"-- Provided by publisher.
\nA limited number of My Friends by Fredrik Backman are available at R egent Place Library\, otherwise reserve your copy here.
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