Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

A year after Superstorm Sandy, Lucy's life is returning to normal at the New Jersey shore, where she has grown up surfing with her twin brother, crabbing and long-boarding with friends, and working at Surf Taco, but the torch she holds for summer resident Connor, the center of The Big Mistake, still burns.

During a summer internship as an obituary writer for her local northern New Jersey newspaper, sixteen-year-old Samantha D'Angelo makes some momentous realizations about politics, ethics, her family, romance, and most importantly--herself.