The tale is told in alternating POV’s and this really helped me connect with them.

He seemed to accept the way things were, and rather than dwelling on how bad their situation was he worked to improve them. I connected with Anna and really liked her. The characters were fully developed and I had a strong sense of who they were. The tale that unfolds is fascinating, beautiful, sad, scary, and wonderfully touching. The plane crashes and they find themselves on a desert island. On the final leg of their trip, they fly in a private charter over the Maldives islands.

T.J and Anna travel from Chicago to the islands. She plans to use the time to reflect and make decisions regarding the relationship. She will be spending the summer on a tropical island with them far from her life at home.

a sixteen-year-old boy who’s recently recovered from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. At thirty-one her biological clock is screaming and she decides to accept a summer job tutoring T.J. She wants children and marriage, but the man she has been in a relationship with for eight years doesn’t want to commit. I was completely captivated from page one and consumed this in a single evening.Īnna Emerson is at a crossroads in her life. Tracey Garvis-Graves delivers a powerful, taboo romance that will have you rethinking age-old opinions. I can definitely understand why this made the New York Times bestseller’s list. I was approached by the publisher to review On the Island and did not really know much about it, but the synopsis intrigued me. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man. But as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.’s cancer could return. At first, their only thought is survival. They make it to shore, but soon discover that they’re stranded on an uninhabited island. Their plane crashes in shark-infested waters. board a private plane headed to the Callahan’s summer home, and as they fly over the Maldives’ twelve hundred islands, the unthinkable happens. But his parents are insisting he spend the summer in the Maldives catching up on all the school he missed last year. His cancer is in remission and he wants to get back to his normal life. Worn down by the cold Chicago winters and a relationship that’s going nowhere, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T.J. Two people stranded on an island struggle to survive-and slowly fall in love-in the runaway New York Times bestseller, now available with a reading group guide and a letter from the author Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure.

On the island by tracey garvis graves