In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown­ - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin ? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common ? Summer. Provided by publisher

Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways. Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium.

Jedes Jahr, wenn der Herbst naht, wird Annett von einer inneren Unruhe erfasst. Dann macht sich die Narbe an ihrem Arm bemerkbar, dann werden die Erinnerungen an den Sommer 1988 und an die Clique von damals wach. Fünf Freunde, die sich blind vertrauten, bis einer von ihnen zum Verräter wurde. Jetzt, Jahrzehnte später, begreift Annett, dass sie ihren inneren Frieden erst finden wird, wenn sie sich der Vergangenheit stellt. Kurz entschlossen fährt sie nach Wismar. Zurück an die Ostsee, in ihre alte Heimat. Doch je mehr sie dort über die Ereignisse jenes Sommers herausfindet, umso deutlicher wird: Sie hätte die Vergangenheit besser ruhen lassen, denn der Verrat von damals reißt ihr Leben erneut in einen Abgrund … Ein großer Spannungsroman über eine ungesühnte Schuld und die Schatten der Vergangenheit, die eine Familie nach Jahrzehnten einholen.

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