Mira shelters in place, gathering her family’s treasures–including Jasper Lee’s sand collection–and a stray cat in her room at the top of their house. The storm completely cuts off Haven from the mainland as phones and bridges go out. Meanwhile, Mira is at home, alone, preparing to face a hurricane. Their mom is raising them alone, working multiple part-time jobs to support her children and care for her sickly son. When Mickey takes Jasper Lee to the hospital for a routine medical treatment, complications require them to stay overnight. “This is the story of you,” he writes one each one, explaining each sample to itself. He’s biologically special too: he has Hunter syndrome, a rare genetic condition caused by a missing enzyme. He does special things like collecting sand in little bottles. Mira Banul, her little brother Jasper Lee, and her mother Mickey are Year-Rounders. Normal life on Haven doesn’t usually include the prospect of weather-related destruction. It’s a popular summer getaway spot, but when fall arrives, the year-round population breathes a sigh of relief and gets back to normal life. The small island of Haven sits just off the New Jersey coast. Her 2016 young-adult novel This Is The Story of You responds to the devastation caused there by Superstorm Sandy in the autumn of 2012. This Is The Story of A StormĪuthor Beth Kephart has a long and intimate acquaintance with the Jersey Shore. Gripping and poetic, This Is the Story of You is about the beauty of nature and the power of family, about finding hope in the wake of tragedy and recovery in the face of overwhelming loss. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on-to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home.
But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland.
On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. Genres: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, General
Published by Chronicle Books on April 12th 2016
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