Books like The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
Three decades after a harrowing loss, Luna Coleman discovers that her mother’s past holds a secret she could only speak of after death. With her sister, Luna travels to Brooklyn to investigate her mother’s birthplace and settle unanswered questions. In the city, a mysterious, magical event transports Luna to the summer of 1977, where she encounters her mother as a young woman. Faced with the power to change the past, Luna wrestles with whether altering her mother’s fate is worth the potential sacrifice of her own life.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fantasy
Authors: Rowan Coleman
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