"She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back."
Ann Brashares is an American novelist best known for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series for young adult readers. She has also written novels for adults, including The Last Summer (of You and Me). Her fiction has been adapted for film and has reached an international readership.