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Beach Music by Pat Conroy tells the story of Jack McCall, a cookbook author and travel writer living in Italy with his daughter Leah, who returns to his South Carolina hometown after learning of his mother's leukemia. The novel explores themes of generational trauma, forgiveness, and the impact of the past on the present, set against the backdrop of the American South. The source text addresses death by suicide, sexual violence, domestic abuse, alcohol use disorder, mental illness, and genocide.