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Saving Toby
Story summary:
Saving Toby
Story summary:
Loving someone through
their hard fall from grace takes a lot of grit.
When pious widow, Julia
Faye is re-diagnosed with Lymphoma, ambitious, 20 year-old Claudia Chiametti is
hired to assist her around the house through her convalescence. But in their
small Long Island town, the Faye family is known for its tragic history. Due to
her care-taking role with his mother, Claudia is inevitably forced into close
proximity with Mrs. Faye’s youngest son, Toby. With rumors of fights, drugs and
shady friends, Claudia is surprised to find that underneath a head-turning
handsome face is a guy who is amusing and rather sweet.
21 year-old Toby
Faye returns home with a sense of obligation. He will once again have to take
care of his mother, something he’s done most of his life. But things are sure
to be different this time — the smart, pretty girl who used to rule his young
teenage dreams, is now working at his house. Using this unexpected access to
his benefit, Toby tries to give Claudia a taste of what he has to offer. But
the delights he proposes are unfamiliar to such a focused, self-disciplined
girl. He will have to be patient, go slow and rein in his natural impulses.
Harrowing stories from
Toby’s childhood has Claudia pledging to do whatever she can to bring about
change, to both mother and son. But tension with friends from the past set off
a cascade of events — threats involving a racially provoked attack, police
involvement and even death — impel the effects of a dark upbringing to the surface. A deep-seated anger and profound insecurity are unveiled. The dark flaws
devastate the tender bond that briefly unites the two.
Despite the ruins he has
left her in, Claudia has a difficult time turning her back on the only guy who
ever held her heart. Does she have the grit to love Toby through his fall?
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