Facing the Sun, Janice Lynn Mather
Facing the Sun, Janice Lynn Mather
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Facing the Sun

Author: Janice Lynn Mather

Narrator: Chrystal Bethell, Adenrele Ojo, Robin Eller, York Whitaker

Unabridged: 12 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2020


Synopsis

Eve is the rock in her family of seven, the one they always depend on. But when her dad is diagnosed with cancer, she wants nothing more than to trade her worries for some red lipstick and a carefree night.Faith is the dancer all the boys want, but she only has eyes for the one she cant have. The only thing is, all the flirting in the world cant distract her from her broken home life...or the secrets that she hides.KeeKee is a poet who wont follow the rules, not even to please her estranged father. But after a horrible betrayal, shell have to choose between being right and losing everyone she loves.Nia is a prisoner longing to escape her overprotective mother. A summer art program might be her ticket to freedom, yet it comes with a terrible priceand the risk may not be worth the reward.Ready or not, its time for these four friends to face the sun.

About Janice Lynn Mather

Janice Lynn Mather is a Bahamian writer with an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She has been a collector of interesting jobs: journalist, conversationalist, performance poet, and professional finger-wagger. Currently, she lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she hunches over her computer, grows vegetables, dabbles at the beach, reads in the sun, grumbles at the rain, and, most of all, writes.


Reviews

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz on June 27, 2021

A surprisingly great YA read filled with an amazing group of girls you won’t forget anytime soon! In Janice Lynn-Mather Facing the Sun we are taken to Pinder Street in the Bahamas. The story opens with a group of friends be ran off the public beach by an unknown security guard. This is jarring fo......more

Goodreads review by jazmin ✿ on September 05, 2020

"Instead of trying to twist my mess or emotions into words, I let myself sit there with her. Feel how it is for someone to really, truly know you, not just in traded stories, pressed bodies, close space, but in years and tears and misplaced laughter, in unspoken words, in actions that make the stopp......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on April 20, 2021

FACING THE SUN is about four friends who experience unexpected changes in their lives during the summer when a hotel developer purchases their community’s beloved beach. UGH I loved being able to read Bahamian culture in the pages of a book. It honestly brings tears to my eyes. I loved how Mather us......more

Goodreads review by Jypsy on September 13, 2020

YES, YES, AND YES. I was sitting on the edge of my seat from beginning to end for this book. The reader is taken into the worlds of Eve, Nia, Faith, and KeeKee and these young ladies go through too much at a young age. The story is set in the Bahamas (the author is Bahamian too!) and exposes the neg......more

Goodreads review by Jen on August 17, 2020

I've been actively seeking out books written by West Indian authors and it was the cover of this one that grabbed me. Simply stunning cover. I'm usually not a fan of multiple point-of-view books because it can become difficult to distinguish the voice of one protagonist from another and with the mul......more