I'll Stay

Name: I'll Stay
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Karen Day
ISBN: 9781520091273

Author: Karen Day

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 01/30/2018

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

There are some decisions you can never unmake. You can only atone for them - or try to. During her senior year of college, Clare Michaels takes a spring break trip to Florida with three other girls, including her best friend, Lee. She's hoping for adventure and a few stories to share back at school. Instead, a string of bad choices leads to a horrific encounter, and Lee offers herself up so that Clare can escape. In the weeks and months that follow that fateful incident, Lee, once so dynamic and ambitious, flounders and withdraws. Clare was the only person to whom she'd ever confided about her troubled past. For Clare, that role felt like an honor-until it became a burden. Now she's trying to make amends for her momentary selfishness by taking care of Lee. Years pass, circumstances change, and contact between Clare and Lee ebbs and flows, but the events of that night in Florida are impossible to escape. They keep dragging Clare back, forcing her to confront what really happened and her part in it...

About Karen Day

Karen Day is the author of three middle-grade novels: Tall Tales, No Cream Puffs, and A Million Miles from Boston. I'll Stay is her first adult novel. In addition to teaching at the Cape Cod Writing Center conference, she also teaches at Boston's Grub Street, various SCBWI events, and workshops across metro Boston. For more information, visit klday.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on January 13, 2018

I’ll Stay by Karen Day is a contemporary fiction read that centers around the main character Clare Michaels. The story is about friendship and family and the choices made surrounding those relationships. It brings to mind those what if moments in our lives that we can’t help but think how things wou......more

Goodreads review by Nila on January 30, 2018

The story goes thus: during college break 4 friends take a trip to Florida for partying, where they behave stupidly and two of them Clare and Lee end up in a dangerous situation leading to the entry unsavory characters, and Lee offers herself allowing Clare to escape. Clare manages to get help and......more

Goodreads review by kellie on January 04, 2018

This book jumps right into four friends on a road trip, with nowhere to stay they hook up with an old school pal. After partying a little to hard, two stay with the old school pal and two go off with his friends to get some sleep. Not thinking straight after drinking and smoking a little too much t......more

Goodreads review by T.M. on January 08, 2018

This timely book will hit home with anyone who’s ever typed the words #metoo, or anyone who has ever loved someone who has struggled to recover from trauma. When you first learn the significance of the title, it’s like a kick in the gut; then the author keeps you glued with sharp details and suspens......more

Goodreads review by Suspense Magazine on April 04, 2018

Karen Day is an author well-known for the great novels she has written for middle-grade readers. But in this, her first novel written for adults, she does a stunning job of bringing to life a complex, emotional, and highly suspenseful tale. Split into three parts covering the years 1983, 1986 and 19......more