EAN: 9780593499108

THE LIFEGUARDS - AMANDA EYRE WARD KARTONIERT (TB)

A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood 
family  and loyalty. I tore through it.”—Miranda Cowley Heller  author of The Paper Palace The
bonds between three picture-perfect—but viciously protective—mothers and their close-knit sons
are tested during one unforgettable summer in a gripping novel from the New York Times
bestselling author of The Jetsetters. Austin’s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of
greenbelt trails  live music  and moms who drink a few too many margaritas. Whitney  Annette 
and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they have raised their children together for fifteen
years  believing that they can shelter them their children from an increasingly dangerous
world. Their friendship is unbreakable—as safe as the neighborhood where they've raised their
sweet little boys.Or so they think. One night  the three women have been enjoying happy hour
when their boys  lifeguards for the summer  come back on bicycles from a late-night dip in
their favorite swimming hole. The boys share a secret—news that will shatter the perfect world
their mothers have so painstakingly created. Combining three mothers’ points of view in a
powerful narrative tale with commentary from entertaining neighborhood listservs  secret text
messages  and police reports  The Lifeguards is both a story about the secrets we tell to
protect the ones we love and a riveting novel of suspense filled with half-truths and betrayals
fierce love and complicated friendships  and the loss of innocence on one hot summer night.

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