i love books about sistersarc contemporary from-publisher-author ...more39 s2 comments Lizzy Brannan88 16

First of all, thank you NetGalley and Random House for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for my unfortunately honest review.

Elise and Sophie are sisters and are used to their mom not returning home for a few days, but when it’s been a couple of weeks, Elise returns home from college realizing her mom has been deported back to Brazil. The girls are used to fending for themselves and that’s what they do, hoping Mom will return.

And that’s it. The rest of the book just follows the two girls through their days at work, home, and staying with a friend. I don’t know y’all. I hate saying this, but this might actually be the worst book I’ve ever read. I can’t believe I made it through the whole thing. I’m hardly ever this blunt, but I just don’t understand how a book this can make it this far in publication - with multiple people proofreading and editing. I mean, the stakes are low 90% of the time, the characters are undeveloped, writing flows as if improvised from scene to scene, no real adventure, no suspense, no developed romance, little attention to the through line, ending is random, and there are STRANGE insertions of sexual language with no purpose or follow through. I mean, I could admit to “it’s just not my thing”, but there are many books that aren’t my thing where I honor good solid writing. This ain’t it. So I have to be honest in my review. I hope I am proved wrong when I say I can’t see this book doing well. I’m not even sure I know of an audience to which I could recommend this. Ugh. I don’t want to give a bad review. It’s just not worth reading.10 s AndiReads1,284 146

This is a coming of age novel for a young woman who has lived life to date somewhat naively, sheltered under the protection of a very wealthy friend. As with any coming of age novel, the costs of what she has enjoyed is something she needs to face before truly growing.

Elise's mother is deported to Brazil on the eve of her college graduation. Her younger sister is unable to hold the household together and she travels home quickly to reconcile with the childhood friends she left behind. There is a lot of familiar emotions and events related to outgrowing your childhood but Elise needs to also deal with structural racism and the classism highlighted by the ultra wealthy that share her Nantucket home.

I loved learning about Elise with Elise and you will too. A perfect novel for any young woman seeking themselves or any of us that remember those first growing pains. #Wait #GarbriellaBurnham .#Randomhouse8 s Kelly PrambergerAuthor 6 books42

Awesome writing. Loved the relationship between the two sisters. The scenery was great. Interesting story. Thanks to NetGalley for the arc.4 s Marcia reading past dark178 208

On the day that she is to graduate from college in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Elise receives a phone call from her sister Sophie saying that their mother is missing. When Elise arrives home in Nantucket, she finds that their mother has been sent back to Brazil. After twenty years of living and working in the United States, their mother is deported for missing a hearing with the immigration board.

The book tells a story of the relationship of sisters and of the friendship of college coeds, with a deeper thread that focuses on the failures in the immigration and naturalization system. The book presents a timely message.3 s Anne Wolfe704 47

This may well be a Four-Star review for others, but the book did not speak to me. Present tense narration is very intrusive to me and distracted from the story.

And the story is about an unusual friendship between two college roommates: Elise, the daughter of an illegal resident from Brazil and the offspring of the Play-Dough fortune heir (Sheba, who has two mothers). Elise's younger sister Sophie has just graduated from high school and Elise from college. The girls live on Nantucket and suddenly find their mother absent. It turns out she has been deported (restoring ties with her sister and father in Brazil)

There is much drinking and partying on the island, particularly after the girls are evicted and move in with Sheba in her mothers' mansion. There are several extraneous characters, Harry and Rahul for example, whose inclusion in the novel escapes me. Sheba is a neurotic rich girl with endless supplies of money.

So is this novel highlighting the tale of friendship, of sisterhood, of the pain of parting from a deported parent? And why does the novel end so abruptly? An acceptance and scholarship for Sophie? And what for Elise? And Gilda, their mother? But at this; point, I did not truly care.

Thanks to NetGalley and One World Publishers for an Arc copy to read and review.3 s Jesse Hassinger111 15

"Wait" is a deft melange of coming-of-age and you-can't-go-home-again tropes with the extra added layers of familial deportation and class disparity. Burnham never gets too heavy handed with any of these potentially polemic issues and instead focuses on the characterization of her main characters. Under Bernham's loving writing both Elise, returning to Nantucket Island (where she grew up) after her mother disappears, and her college best friend Sheba, whose mothers own a vacation house on the island, are both shown as flawed and humane with their own separate and sometimes counterintuitive driving forces as they navigate what it means to return to the island after years of being away at college. For Elise, beyond the bitter-sweetness of returning to her sister now that her mother has left them, she is returning as a townie who has escaped; for Sheba her arrival on Nantucket is cutting short a summer in Europe so she can ensure that her spot at the local country club is safe... so quite a different raison d'etre. There are clashes, privileged naiveté, and misunderstandings, but it is all written with compassion both for and between the characters, which is what elevates this book into a serious character study and not just a melodrama.3 s Elaine1,753 1 follower

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC Of Wait.

I needed a break from my usual reading material of serial killers, domestic dramas, and backstabbing frenemies so I thought this would be a palate refreshers. so to speak.

** Minor domestic spoilers ahead **

Elise returns home to Nantucket when her little sister, Sophie, informs her their mom is missing.

Eventually, the siblings discover their mother has been deported to Brazil and the sisters spend a summer growing up, learning about each other, and becoming their own person.

I'm not the ideal audience for this story and in the beginning, I couldn't get into it.

Gradually, I d reading about the sibs spending time together, growing close again, reminiscing about their childhoods, and eventually learning to live apart from their mother.

At the same time, their mother, distraught at being separated from her daughters, establishes a new life in Brazil with her own sister, and reconnects with her estranged father.

When the sibs are evicted, Elise and Sophie crash at Elise's wealthy BFF's summer home and the dichotomy between the haves and have-nots is a not so subtle theme that rears its head throughout the narrative.

Yet, during the course of the summer, the sibs and their mother, an ocean away, learn to adapt to their new circumstances, moving forward with their lives, developing new skills and relationships and discovering resiliency and independence within themselves.

I did think it was pretty lucky Elise's BFF was so wealthy and the sibs had a place to crash.

What if they didn't have somewhere to go?

That would have been interesting to see and opened up a myriad of possibilities for the narrative to go.

Nothing really happens, nothing dramatic, just a lot of reflection and thoughtfulness, and growing up, a coming of age story.

This isn't my type of genre, unless there's a bunch of monsters and zombies chasing the characters around as they reminisce about the good ol' days before monsters and zombies ruled the world.kindle literary netgalley ...more2 s Lori93 2

WAIT is an interesting coming of age story about a young woman, Elise, who is graduating from college. When her mother, Gilda, and sister Sophia, don’t show up for graduation, she contacts her sister and finds out her mother is missing. She immediately flies home to Nantucket and after several days, they discover their mother has been deported in Brazil for not having papers. Sophie, who is just graduating from high school, goes to work while Elise works at her pre-college job for the summer. Gilda is trying to get back to daughters runs into immigration red tape. The girls lose their home because a nosy next-door neighbor told the landlord that the mother whose name was on the lease was gone. Fortunately, Sheba, Elise’s friend from college has a guest house in which they can stay. The relationship between the three girls is interesting. They are continual sexual undertones. Sheba is a “summer” girl and quite affluent. A party gone wrong hurts the relationship between Sheba and Elise. Elise and Sophia must leave the guest house permanently. Sophia goes off to college after being waitlisted. Gilda has found her way back to family in Brazil. Elise is planning to go to Brazil. WAIT is New England weather. Wait a few minutes and it will change.
Thank you to NetGalley and One World Publishers for this advance copy.2 s Lisa Gilbert265 17

When Sophie calls her older sister, Elise, to say that their mother is missing, Elise rushes back to Nantucket Island to discover that their mother has been deported back to Brazil. The sisters were both born in America, however, their mother was never granted citizenship as she missed her hearing due to medical issues. After twenty years of living and working in America, their mother still is not safe from deportation.

The book encompasses immigration and wealth inequities equally and true to life. We are given glimpses into the imperfect ways that immigrants are treated and the socioeconomic injustices at play.

This book gives good insight into a broken system while highlighting how those left behind can survive. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a great coming of age story. Thank you, NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the ARC.

2 s Stacey E. 400 30

This was not for me. I did not enjoy the writing, and I could not connect with the characters. It honestly was hard to even pick up after I took a break for a few days. From the synopsis, I was really looking forward to reading this, but in the end, it was a miss, and I DNF'd at 35%. Thank you, NetGalley, Random House, and One World, for the opportunity to read and review this advanced copy.2 s Lisa642 57

This was a DNF for me even though I got through more than 3/4 of the book…I just couldn’t do it anymore.
A lot of you will this book…it’s got family drama, struggles, and hope. However, my family drama is more interesting (
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