Swift River by Essie Chambers #literature the pressure to succeed

the pressure to succeed

written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her

From dinosaurs and sea beasts

They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon

a unique world full of color and flavor where the shelves were stocked with everything from M&M’s to Muenster cheese to majarete (Caribbean corn pudding)—and

Swift River by Essie Chambers #literature the pressure to succeed'I love a novel this much maybe just once or twice a year.' Curtis Sittenfeld, author of RODHAM and ROMANTIC COMEDY 'Told with warmth and humor by a memorable, irrepressible heroine.' Rumaan Alam, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND What if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you've ever known? Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sixteen year old Diamond Newbury is desperately