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Keeping Up With the Wind: A 'Burban Tale by Suleyma Moon
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  • Time 8h 25m
Complete, First published Mar 15, 2014
Mature
Silvy Richards has lived the majority of her childhood based on the assumption that she and her surrogate family of friends will always be together forever. But by the time the summer of '88 rolls around, it seems that right when she is drowning in the sea of life, her "family" is drifting further and further from her grasp. Silvy suddenly finds her world spinning out of control and is struggling to figure out how things have managed to go so terribly wrong. Even worse, this spiral seems to be happening at a time when she needs her friends the most. At the tender age of fifteen, Silvy quickly learns that a family united can easily become a family divided. Through a series of epiphanies brought on by drug use, child abuse and sexual assault, she finds herself no longer seeing the world through the eyes of a child, but in the light of a well lived adult. This story follows a group of friends, who think of themselves more as family, through one tragic summer that will alter the course of their lives forever. Some of these kids will make it out of the summer alive, and some of them won't. This is the story of one teenager's struggle for survival, and for the survival of her "security blanket" of friends, sewn together by fate and torn apart the same way.

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