BOOKISH FRIDAY: EXCERPTING “THE ACCIDENT SEASON”

Welcome to another Bookish Friday, in which I  share excerpts from books…and connect with other bloggers, who do the same.

In last week’s Bookish Friday, I enjoyed excerpting “Cop Town.”

Let’s begin the celebration by sharing Book Beginnings, hosted by Rose City Reader; and let’s showcase The Friday 56 with Freda’s Voice.

To join in, just grab a book and share the opening lines…along with any thoughts you wish to give us; then turn to page 56 and excerpt anything on the page.

Then give us the title of the book, so others can add it to their lists!

What better way to spend a Friday!

Let’s grab our coffee and begin with today’s feature:  The Accident Season, by Moira Fowley-Dodd.

 

 

 

Beginning:

So let’s raise our glasses to the accident season,

To the river beneath us where we sink our souls,

To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling,

One more drink for the watery road.

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When I heard Bea chant the words, it was as if little insects were crawling in under my spine, ready to change it.  I was going to crack and bend, become something other.  Our temples were sweating under our masks, but we didn’t take them off.  It felt like they had become part of our skins.

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56:  After answering my mother’s fifth text, Sam tells me that last night he dreamed about an old farmhouse in the middle of the country and how he knew it was empty but he kept seeing all these faces in the windows.  I tell him about the kids I thought I saw in our reflection in the train window, and about my dream of the changeling siblings.

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Blurb:  For fans of We Were Liars, How I Live Now, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane comes a haunting, sexy, magically realistic debut about a family caught between a violent history, a taboo romance, and the mysteries lurking in their own backyard.

Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it’s bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it’s just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season—when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17—is going to be a bad one. But not for the reasons they think.

Cara is about to learn that not all the scars left by the accident season are physical: There’s a long-hidden family secret underneath the bumps and bruises. This is the year Cara will finally fall desperately in love, when she’ll start discovering the painful truth about the adults in her life, and when she’ll uncover the dark origins of the accident season—whether she’s ready or not.

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I haven’t started this one yet, but now I’m putting it near the top of my list.  I can’t wait to find out more.  What do you think?  What are you sharing?

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