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The Names They Gave Us - Emery Lord |
When it all falls apart, who can you believe
in?
Everything is going right for Lucy Hansson, until her mom’s cancer reappears.
Just like that, Lucy breaks with all the constants in her life: her do-good
boyfriend, her steady faith, even her longtime summer church camp job.
Instead, Lucy lands at a camp for kids who have been through tough times. As a
counselor, Lucy is in over her head and longs to be with her parents across the
lake. But that’s before she gets to know her coworkers, who are as loving and
unafraid as she so desperately wants to be.
It’s not just new friends that Lucy discovers at camp—more than one old secret
is revealed along the way. In fact, maybe there’s much more to her family and
her faith than Lucy ever realized.
I won’t lie: my
expectations weren’t all that high for this book. I read When We Collided recently and was disappointed but The Names They Gave Us, the new book
from Emery Lord, resonated with me, in ways I wasn’t quite prepared for.
It’s
about a girl called Lucy, she’s a Christian, heavily involved in her Church –
her Dad is a pastor – and spends every summer at the Church camp her parents
run. Her faith is a part of her, a deeply ingrained part of who she is and then
her Mum gets diagnosed with cancer and her faith begins to waver and the book,
basically, is an exploration of that: of faith, of the lack of it, of grief and
loss and growing up.
& it’s
good.
