The Shore: A Novel

  • Author: Katie Runde
  • Narrator: Priya Ayyar
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 8:04:12
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Synopsis

Set over the course of one summer, this perfect beach read follows a mother and her two daughters as they grapple with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of family secrets.

Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But the family’s future becomes even more precarious when Brian develops a brain tumor, transforming into a bizarre, erratic version of himself. Amidst the chaos and new caretaking responsibilities, Liz still seeks out summer adventure and flirting with a guy she should know better than to pursue. Her younger sister Evy works in a candy shop, falls in love with her friend Olivia, and secretly adopts the persona of a middle-aged mom in an online support group, where she discovers her own mother’s most vulnerable confessions. Meanwhile, Margot faces an impossible choice driven by grief, impulse, and the ways that small-town life in Seaside has shaped her. Falling apart is not an option, but she can always pack up and leave the beach behind.

The Shore is a powerful, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel infused with humor about young women finding sisterhood, friendship, and love in a time of crisis. This big-hearted family saga examines the grit and hustle of running a small business in a tourist town, the ways we connect with strangers when our families can’t give us everything we need, and the comfort to be found in embracing the pleasures of youth while coping with unimaginable loss.

Chapters

  • 001 TheShore Open

    Duration: 23s
  • 002 TheShore Dedication

  • 003 TheShore Epigraph

    Duration: 10s
  • 004 TheShore Brian

    Duration: 01min
  • 005 TheShore PartI Chapter1

    Duration: 34min
  • 006 TheShore PartI Chapter2

    Duration: 35min
  • 007 TheShore PartI Chapter3

    Duration: 14min
  • 008 TheShore PartI Chapter4

    Duration: 21min
  • 009 TheShore PartI Chapter5

    Duration: 24min
  • 010 TheShore PartI Chapter6

    Duration: 14min
  • 011 TheShore PartI Chapter7

    Duration: 18min
  • 012 TheShore PartII Chapter8

    Duration: 12min
  • 013 TheShore PartII Chapter9

    Duration: 38min
  • 014 TheShore PartII Chapter10

    Duration: 28min
  • 015 TheShore PartII Chapter11

    Duration: 09min
  • 016 TheShore PartII Chapter12

    Duration: 11min
  • 017 TheShore PartII Chapter13

    Duration: 10min
  • 018 TheShore PartII Chapter14

    Duration: 15min
  • 019 TheShore PartII Chapter15

    Duration: 18min
  • 020 TheShore PartII Chapter16

    Duration: 13min
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