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The Beach Trees

by Karen White
Ki Gottberg
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When struggling artist Morgan Guidry dies of a heart defect, she leaves custody of her young son, Beau, to her friend Ellie Holt, along with half of her Biloxi house and a portrait of a woman. In Biloxi, Ellie makes contact with the Guidrys, who are interested in knowing how she came to own the portrait, as Morgan stole it from her grandmother, Aimee. The woman in the painting is Carolyn Guidry, Aimee's mother-in-law, and as Aimee tells her story, starting when she met the Guidrys in 1950, Ellie's questions to Morgan's past are slowly answered.

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  • Release date

    May 6, 2011

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781593165888
      • File size: 434952 KB
      • Duration: 15:06:08

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 28, 2011
      White (On Folly Beach) spins a convoluted story of unexplained disappearances and family secrets stretching from New Orleans to Biloxi, Miss. Five years after Katrina, New Yorker Julie Holt arrives in New Orleans with a mission: she's got a deed to a Biloxi beach house and surprise custody of Beau, her late friend Monica's five-year-old son, and she intends to introduce Beau to the extended family he's never met. Soon, with the help of Monica's grandmother, Aimee, and brother, Trey, Julie begins to piece together exactly why Monica left her home and family, and that Monica's family's secrets run deep and murkyâthey involve a murder, a famous painter, and a disappearanceâwhich Julie can relate to, as her own sister was kidnapped when she was a child. Told in alternating chaptersâJulie in the present, Aimee in the 1950sâas both women search for answers to their respective mysteries, the novel is slow moving and more confusingly teased out than the plot warrants, with White's descriptions of the gulf coastâand New Orleans in particularâoffering more reason to keep reading than the less than expert treatment of the families' tormented pasts.

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