The Breakup Artists by Adriana Mather EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Adriana Mather
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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august
(a ridiculous name i blame my mom for)
Summer break—two of the best words in the English language—promising
lazy days on the beach, waffle cones at Tony’s Surf Shack, and burritoing
myself in my blanket until noon. The welcome end of senior year also
means that Valentine (I call her Tiny) and I are back in business after
officially removing the “be back soon” sign from the front page of our
website. It only took forty-eight hours for the whisper network (as Tiny
calls it) to realize we’d returned, it took five hours of interviewing worried
parents and best friends to choose our first case, and it’ll take just three
weeks of digging around in other people’s lives to complete it.
Tiny kicks off her flip-flops on the dock that connects our backyards
and sits down next to me, letting her feet dangle above the calm water.
Lights appear on her porch in preparation for evening and crickets hum in
the brush. Illuminated, Tiny’s large house dominates our small inlet. In
comparison, my family’s small Victorian with the peeling paint looks like
an unkempt garage.
She opens the notebook she’s holding and pushes a stray piece of
straight brown hair behind her ear. Her expression is smug. “Guess who just
got off the phone with Katie’s best friends?” She wags her eyebrows at me.
“Me, that’s who. They were gushing about us, August. GUSH-ING. They
said she’s happier than they’ve ever seen her, that she’s excited about
college again, that she actually started talking to her parents over dinner like
she used to. They said they’re writing us a rave review.”
In our small harborside town in Massachusetts, summer jobs are easy
pickings. Rich vacationers from Boston and New York flood rental
properties with luggage piled high in convertibles, cash in hand, and the
local businesses can’t hire fast enough. But Tiny and I aren’t applying at
one of the waterfront restaurants. We aren’t trying to be lifeguards or
gathering references to work on one of the yachts in the harbor. In fact, no
one in our town knows what we do. Our friends think we’ve had some
elusive intern job with Tiny’s dad’s music production company in Boston
for the past year and a half. And our families think we work for a catering
company. But really, we break people up for a living through a business
with the cheesiest name imaginable—Summer Love Inc. —a combination
of our names, August and Valentine.
Tiny (the creator) loves the name, and she loves love. She believes that
we’re speeding people along on their path to finding their soulmates,
steering relationships off a cliff so they can find better matches down the
road. But me? I like the Inc.—a clinical suffix for a company that exposes
relationships for what they really are so people can heal. And well, this job
is personal, a service I wish had existed for my sister.
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