The Firelight Girls: A Novel

About this book

The summers you spend at summer camp are indelibly etched on your heart. But what happens when the camp you love is about to close? Can you ever really say goodbye to the place that made you who you are? These are the questions that plagues Ethel the seventy-year-old former camp director who is nursing a broken heart after losing the love of her life as she now faces the impending closure of the camp on Lake Wenatchee that she called home. Its also a question that inspires change in forty-year-old Shannon who spent the summers of her youth as a vibrant capable camp counselor and is now directionless after watching her career implode. And theres Laura who has lost all intimacy with her husband and doesnt know if she can save what seems to be gone forever. Finally Ruby who betrayed Ethel years ago and hasnt spoken to her since hopes this will be her chance to make amends. When the four women learn that a homeless teen has been hiding at camp they realize camp is something much more immediate for all: survival. And so the three generations of women search for a way to save the place that saved them all finding in the process a way back to themselves and each other in The Firelight Girls Kaya McLarens novel of love and loss heartbreak and healing.