Her boyfriend is stalling and hasn't popped the question yet despite the fact that they have dated for years. 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.' Anna is a thirty year old high school English teacher and is feeling pretty stagnant at this point in her life.

Their basic needs might be met 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. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island.

are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him.

Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. With only each other for love and support, these two lost souls must come to terms with their situation and find compaionship in one another in the moments they need it most.Goodreads says, ' When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. But as the days turn to weeks, and then months, and as birthdays pass, the castaways must brave violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the worst threat of all-the possibility that T.J.’s cancer could return. They make it to shore, but soon discover they’re stranded on an uninhabited island.Īt first, their only thought is survival. board a private plane headed to the Callahans’ summer home, but as they fly over the Maldives’ twelve hundred islands, the unthinkable happens: their plane crashes in shark-infested waters. To break up the monotony of everyday life, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring T.J.Īnna and T.J. But his parents insist that he spend the summer catching up on the school he missed while he was sick.Īnna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher who has been worn down by the cold Chicago winters and a relationship that’s going nowhere. With his cancer in remission, all he wants is to get back to his normal life. In this runaway New York Times bestseller, a harrowing near-death experience brings together an English teacher and her student as they struggle to survive on a desert island.

On the island by tracey garvis graves