The Best First Sentence Of A Novel This Year (So Far!)

“The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women’s Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.”

— How can you not want to read September Girls since it has one of the great first sentences of all time?

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