We Came Here to Forget

Author/Guide: Andrea Dunlop

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2000s: A woman meets a man keeping dark secrets in Buenos Aires

ISBN: B07KBFV12B
Genre: Fiction

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What you need to know before your trail

Katie Cleary has always known exactly what she wants: to be the best skier in the world. As a teenager, she leaves her home to live and train full time with her two best friends, brothers Luke and Blair. Their wealthy father hires the best coaches money can buy and after years of training, the three friends are the USA’s best shot at bringing home Olympic gold.

But as the upward trajectory of Katie’s elite skiing career nears its zenith, a terrifying truth about her sister becomes impossible to ignore—one that will lay ruin not only to Katie’s career but to her family and her relationship with Luke and Blair.

With her life shattered and nothing left to lose, Katie flees the snowy mountainsides of home for Buenos Aires. There, she reinvents herself and meets a colorful group of ex-pats and the alluring, charismatic Gianluca Fortunado, a tango teacher with secrets of his own. This beautiful city, with its dark history and wild promise, seems like the perfect refuge, but can she really outrun her demons?

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America/USA - Ohio - Salt Lake City
A: Park City
B: Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)

Travel Guide

We Came Here to Salt Lake City and Buenos Aires to Forget

Two sisters and an escape to a new city and a new country far removed from what they have known before. The backdrop of Buenos Aires is in complete contrast to where they are from. In Argentina, life is exciting and full of possibility. Life is fast and furious. One of the sisters loves to ski and so we can get a a glimpse of that world as well. As one of them skis, she actually goes downhill in other ways too – and that illness is the real setting of this novel. Expat life in Argentina though is well evoked.

The thing about tragedy is that it isn’t about just getting through it, it’s about getting on with your life when the dust has settled but the landscape is bombed out, smoke in the air, charred remains at your feet.