num_pages: 355
description: Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction deep heartache and raw vulnerability with a bit of mystery and one whopping knock-you-to-your-knees romance.It's not what you know - or when you see - that matters. It's about a journey.Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle college freshman small-town Ohio transplant and the newest resident of this Boston house is determined to get to the bottom of it. When Julie's off-campus housing falls through her mother's old college roommate Erin Watkins invites her to move in. The parents Erin and Roger are welcoming but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. The middle child Matt is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side ... and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The youngest Celeste is a frighteningly bright but freakishly fastidious 13-year-old who hauls around a life-sized cardboard cutout of her oldest brother almost everywhere she goes.And there's that oldest brother Finn: funny gorgeous smart sensitive almost emotionally available. Geographically? Definitely unavailable. That's because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats e-mails and status updates. Before long through late-night exchanges of disembodied text he begins to stir something tender and silly and maybe even a little bit sexy in Julie's suddenly lonesome soul.To Julie the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that ... well ... doesn't quite add up. Not until she forces a buried secret to the surface eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart does she get her answer.Flat-Out Love comes complete with emails Facebook status updates and instant messages.
language: English
title: Flat-Out Love
publisher: Skyscape