In Ann Brashare's Latest, Two Kids From A Fractured Family Meet At Last
The author behind the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series writes from experience — her parents divorced when she was young, and she says the divisions remain "to this day."
Novelist Ann Brashares' parents divorced when she was young. "It wasn't an amicable split ..." she says, "And in some way the divisions just kept going, even to this day they do." Those experiences inspired Brashares — who wrote the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series — to write her new novel, The Whole Thing Together.
The conceit at the heart of the book is a boy and a girl — not related by blood — are part-blended family. Their parents are determined to stay angry at other, so the kids have never met — but they occupy the same bedroom at the family's shared summer house on Long Island. Sasha and Ray spend their childhoods living in parallel, but finally meet as teenagers.
