The Writing Box

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An epic family story of turmoil and change.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- ANASTASIA SUEN author of the Eureka! Gold Medal Winner </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Up! Up! Up! Skyscraper</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(67 67 67 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Fifteen-year old Julia lives in New York with her conservative parents Peter and Ana Kilmere. Each summer she spends visiting her grandmother who lives on a Caribbean island. Holidays at grandma's is the best for Julia. She loves the beach grandma's cooking and best of all her stories. There's also a little something going on with her childhood friend Jonathan. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>On her last night on the island her grandmother tucks her in with an exotic gift that comes with a story. It's a family heirloom from India a writing box. Julia lives in the digital age and can't imagine any use for it except to hold her trinkets. But an accident on a rainy evening a late-night announcement and three dinner guests shatters her ideas of her perfect world. She comes face-to-face with how she thought family sense of self and happily ever after should look like. Could her grandmother's gift a relic from the past help put Julia back together again?</span></p><p></p>