Around Again by Suzanne Strempek Shea

Title: Around Again
Author: Suzanne Strempek Shea
Type: Novel
Genre: Fiction
Series: No
Pages: 320
Copyrights: 2002
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Rating: 3 out of 5

Summary: from Good Reads

When Robyn Panek is summoned by her ailing uncle Pal to operate his pony ring for one final season on his Massachusetts farm, her years away form the vacation spot of her youth seem an unbridgeable gap. But she is pulled by forces stronger than memory to piece together the events of that last childhood summer -- when a dark mystery swirled about her friend Lucy Dragon. They called her crazy, and Robyn must at last uncover the truth about Lucy's sudden disappearance -- and make peace with her own first love, Frankie. Now the future of Pal's six ponies, who circle the ring five times for a dollar a ride, is as uncertain as Robyn's own, as she confronts the past she ran from so long ago.

Feelings:
I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. Going back to where childhood memories are strongest isn't always easy but going back can also be healing. I read this book before I read Suzanne Strempek Shea's Becoming Finola and I thought it was good, after reading Becoming Finola I realized that this was the weaker of the two books.

The story of uncovering and discovering something from the past that didn't make since is not a new topic but I enjoyed this take on it. Sometimes endings aren't what we think they are, is how I would summarize this book.

I recomend this book but if you are going to only read one book by Suzanne Strempek Shea it should be Becoming Finola.