Flat out love by jessica park5/13/2023 ![]() To Julie, the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that … well… doesn’t quite add up. ![]() Before long, through late-night exchanges of disembodied text, he begins to stir something tender and silly and maybe even a little bit sexy in Julie’s suddenly lonesome soul. ![]() That’s because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats, e-mails, and status updates. The youngest, Celeste, is a frighteningly bright but freakishly fastidious 13-year-old who hauls around a life-sized cardboard cutout of her oldest brother almost everywhere she goes.Īnd there’s that oldest brother, Finn: funny, gorgeous, smart, sensitive, almost emotionally available. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side… and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. When Julie’s off-campus housing falls through, her mother’s old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. And Julie Seagle, college freshman, small-town Ohio transplant, and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it. Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. It’s not what you know-or when you see-that matters. Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction, deep heartache and raw vulnerability, with a bit of mystery and one whopping, knock-you-to-your-knees romance. ![]()
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