She seems to exist at a remove from everyone around her until a new student joins her class: charming, magnetic Siri, who appears to be everything Lauren wishes she could be. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated, still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well liked by her students and colleagues. Lauren Cress teaches writing at a small college outside of Washington, DC.
But once there, Lauren finds herself drawn to Siri's enigmatic, brooding brother Magnus. When Siri invites her on a trip home to Sweden for the summer, Lauren impulsively accepts, intrigued by how Siri describes it: green, fresh, and new, everything just thawing out.
They fall headlong into an all-consuming friendship that feels to Lauren like she is reclaiming her lost adolescence. She seems to exist at a remove from everyone around her until a new student joins her class: charming, magnetic Siri, who appears to be everything Lauren wishes she herself could be.
In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well-liked by her students and colleagues.
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