![]() ![]() There’s plenty of grist for Charlie’s stories as she gets to know the people in town and falls for Kerry, a slightly older and scarred young man with demons of his own. The summer she goes to live with her grandmother in Lake Ringrose, her father is spending the summer in Toronto with his girlfriend and her best friend is in Australia. Instead, Grist by Heather Waldorf is about a blossoming writer who needs to learn to take criticism while gleaning material from her own life to inspire her writing. Review: The cover looks like Charlie has perhaps just killed someone, but I promise she didn’t. Turns out her summer away is going to provide her with a lot of grist for her upcoming writing career as she learns more about her mother’s past than she ever thought possible. ![]() ![]() When the teacher has a heart attack later that night, Charlie feels guilty and takes his criticisms to heart. Just before the summer begins she has an intense conversation with her teacher and takes offense when he challenges her writing. Faced with the decision of whether to spend her summer in Toronto with her dad and his new girlfriend or in Lake Ringrose with her grandmother in the house her mother grew up in. Summary: Charlie, short for Charlena, is an only child whose mother died from cancer when Charlie was just a little girl. ![]()
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