Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece - the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told.
The Larkin family isn't just lucky - they persevere. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival.Įpic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.".at once tender and incisive, profound and page-turning, warm and beautifully written and very funny."- Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.īut wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. The Larkin family isn't just lucky-they persevere. From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life.
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