The Lifeguards: A Novel by Amanda Eyre Ward
“A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect—but viciously protective—mothers and their close-knit sons are tested during one unforgettable summer in a gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters . Austin’s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of greenbelt trails, live music, and moms who drink a few too many margaritas. Whitney, Annette, and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they have raised their children together for fifteen years, believing that they can shelter them their children from an increasingly dangerous world. Their friendship is unbreakable—as safe as the neighborhood where they've raised their sweet little boys. Or so they think. One night, the three women have been enjoying happy hour when their boys, lifeguards for the summer, come back on bicycles from a late-night dip in their favorite swimming hole. The boys share a secret—news that will shatter the perfect world their mothers have so painstakingly created. Combining three mothers’ points of view in a powerful narrative tale with commentary from entertaining neighborhood listservs, secret text messages, and police reports, The Lifeguards is both a story about the secrets we tell to protect the ones we love and a riveting novel of suspense filled with half-truths and betrayals, fierce love and complicated friendships, and the loss of innocence on one hot summer night. Read more
I just finished this book as a copy I picked up digitally from the library. I have lived in Austin since 2010 and am always curious about books set in the area (see also Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me). The setting of this book is immersive and accurate which is to be expected as the author is a local. We learn of three mother's in the Barton Hills neighborhood who have raised their sons together since birth. While the mother's have secrets of their own and are perhaps pretending to be people they are not, they deal with it in different ways when their boys find themselves in the midst of a crime. While I definitely could relate to some of the characters (Liza especially but also Annette) the ending felt a bit rushed for me and I could have used a little bit more time fleshing out some of the other character's motivations. I feel that some things were alluded to that could have been a little bit more concretely spelled out. Surprisingly I did enjoy the somewhat epistolary breaks in the novel in the form of neighborhood message boards and text streams. All in all an enjoyable bit of brain candy with a bit of a mystery I didn't have to think too hard about. Four stars.
ASIN -> B098PX1J16 Publisher -> Ballantine Books (April 5, 2022) Publication date -> April 5, 2022 Language -> English File size -> 9157 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
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