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In the turbulent warmer summer months of 1968, four high school friends make a pact that will change their lives forever. As the Vietnam Conflict rages abroad, four friends make a vow. For another two weeks, they will live for each other and for each day. Then, at the end of both weeks, they will sacrifice themselves on the altar of these friendship. Loyal Kay, our narrator, dreams of being an designer and escaping her stifling family - the stepmother and stepsister she gained after her mother's early on death, and the father she no longer feels she understands. As she struggles with her weight, her schoolwork, and her desiring her mom, she feels devotion and then her three friends, identified to keep their group collectively at any cost. Excellent, charismatic CJ appears to have everything - though even those closest to him can't see him as he is really. Steady, noiseless Saint wants to do right by everyone, seeking not to let his feelings destroy himself and the ones around him. And beautiful Vera's family secrets are too dark to share, even with her closest friends; caught in an online of family dysfunction, she can only hope the others won't get tangled up in the risk she senses around her. Inside the two-week span where the novel takes place, during the warmer summer months before their older year of high school, the lives of Kay, CJ, Saint, and Vera will change beyond their targets, and what they gain and lose will determine the novel's results. Once, in Lourdes is a gripping, haunting book about the power of teenage bonds, the story of four teenagers who will earn your heart and soul and transport you back again to your own high school years. As the heady 1960s move the ground beneath their ft, most of them must face who they are - and who they want to be.
