Book Tour - Big & Lily by Lisa Roe

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Thank you to Bibliolifestyle + Harper Perennial for the gifted copy of Big & Lily by Lisa Roe. (Out Now!)

If a book has a sister trope and takes place in Alaska it sounds like a winner to me.  And I’m happy to report this one was just as cute as I thought it would be. 

The Setup: Younger sister, Lily, finds out her husband is cheating on her and just needs to get away from it all.  Not just get away, but run as far away as possible.  So she finds a wilderness trek in Alaska and drags her big sister Bridget “Big” along.  Initially this seems like a story for Lily and everything she is going through, but you quickly see that Big is struggling too.  She is the one that holds it all together for everyone—he husband, children, mother and sister.  

“But I feel a lightness I haven’t felt in ages.  It’s just hit me.  I’m done.  I don’t need to be the problem solver every time, everywhere.”

I lived in Alaska for three years and felt like the author did a good job on her research of Alaskan cities, wildlife and wilderness.  I loved the found family in this story!

Book Summary: For her entire life, Bridget “Big” Ackerman Petty has struggled to hold everything together—her kids, her husband, her demanding mother, all in dizzying orbit around her. While the kids are grown and her husband is retired, every day still feels like a to-do list she can never quite finish. 

But when Lily discovers her husband’s been cheating, her “perfect” life implodes. Devastated and overwhelmed, she decides to run as far away as possible: to Alaska to lose herself on a hardcore survival trek—and she’s dragged her reluctant sister Big along.

No cell service, no easy exits—just grizzlies, outdoor plumbing, and a group of strangers who know how to read a compass. As the sisters navigate freezing rivers, unmarked trails, and more than one near-death experience, the defenses they’ve used to protect themselves begin to crumble, and they’re forced to face everything they’ve spent decades avoiding: resentment, regret, envy, and the terrifying possibility that the other one’s life might not be as easy as it looks.