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1984: Some summers are spent yearning for something to happen, others are charged wth the feeling that everything is going to change.
This is Gonna End in Tears
What you need to know before your trail
Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together like they were keeping a secret; they were successful, best friends, lovers. It was perfect – a shining life – until it fell apart.
Now Miller and Ash are married and living in Wonderland, the tidal island of sugary coloured houses they ran away from.
Miller feels like she’s disappearing. She wears her tinted sunglasses so often sometimes she forgets the world isn’t green.
Ash is having an affair with a helmet-haired TV presenter.
Olly lives a charmed life in LA but it’s on the precipice of disaster.
Over the long, hot summer of 1984, unanswered questions draw the three of them back together. They are so consumed with the possibility of a redemptive third act, they don’t notice what’s going on between Miller’s son, his best friend and the girl who lives next door. . .
Locations
Reset- AMerica/ USA - California
- A: Wonderland
- B: Los Angeles - Paramount Pictures Studios
- C: Los Angeles - airport
- D: Walt Whitman High School
Travel Guide
Wonderland, Calfornia
Locations are not parricularlly strong at all in this novel but there are a few mentions of hazy summers in Calfornia and trips to LA. One character works in a studio in LA and this then becomes the backdrop that remains firmly in the background. The decade of the 1980s and the lazy never-ending summers we all have when young are the major settings.
There is a bit of a jump of locations between 50s East Coast/60s California/80s East Coast but LA is the main backdrop.
Wonderland is fictional but is a tidal island off the coast of California.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: This is Gonna End in Tears
Destination/Location: California Author: Liza Klaussman Departure: 1984
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