Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.īut wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers.

At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. The Larkin family isn't just lucky - they persevere. Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Circe

Fans of Far from the Tree, We Are Okay, and Emergency Contact will love this stunning debut. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival.Įpic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.From a new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. The Larkin family isn't just lucky-they persevere.

The last true poets of the sea