SUNRISE WAS OUR CURFEW: a Girl, Beach, and the Summers We Thought Would Never End

Myrtle Beach. 1988. Hot nights, tiny shorts, big hair, cute boys, fast motorcycles-and almost no adult supervision.At fifteen, Audrey was tanned, fearless, boy-crazy, and convinced summer would last forever.Days belonged to the beach. Nights belonged to the Strip-the Pavilion lights, arcades, girlfriends, flirting, motorcycles, stolen kisses, questionable decisions, and adventures that didn't end until sunrise.Nobody carried a cell phone. Nobody tracked your location. And thankfully, nobody photographed everything.Decades later, Audrey opens a collection of old photographs and discovers something hiding behind all that sun, freedom, and Aqua Net: She wasn't just looking at who she used to be.She was looking at a world she didn't realize she was losing.Funny, wild, nostalgic, and surprisingly emotional, Sunrise Was Our Curfew is a trip back to the summers when we were young, reckless, beautiful-and absolutely certain there would always be another night.There wasn't.