From New York Times bestselling author Aimee Friedman comes an irresistible, inventive novel that takes readers around the world and back again, and asks us what matters more: the journey or the destination. In the end, it might just be the truth she needs the most. What may break her, though, is a terrible family secret, one she can't hide from anywhere. In both summers, she will fall in love and discover new sides of herself.
In the other, she remains home, in her ordinary suburb, where she expects her ordinary life to continue - but nothing is as it seems. In one, she travels to France, where she's dreamed of going: a land of chocolate croissants, handsome boys, and art museums. When Summer Everett makes a split-second decision, her summer divides into two parallel worlds. ANOTHER SUMMER in upstate New York, along familiar roads that lead to surprises. ONE SUMMER in the French countryside, among sun-kissed fields of lavender. While Summer’s conclusions about these emotional lessons are sometimes sentimentalizing, they are always heartfelt.From New York Times bestselling author Aimee Friedman comes a novel about fate, family secrets, and new love, told in split narrative. Through a pair of situations, Friedman shows that it is the person and not the circumstance that determine the emotional lessons we must learn. Summer’s character is well defined and will be relatable to teenagers trying to work out their places in relationships, romantic and otherwise.
When Summer is about to board the plane she receives a phone call that splits in life in two. In alternating sections showing Summer’s life at home and Summer’s life in France, Summer faces crucial teenage tribulations: her coming-of-age as an artist, her friendship troubles, her romantic involvements, and revelations about her family and her place within it.įriedman easily moves between these two parallel universes with ease and without confusion. Two Summers is about Summer, a girl on her way to France to spend the summer with her father and leave her small town in New York behind her. In Two Summers, Aimee Friedman takes the reader on two journeys: the story of what happens if Summer answers the phone and hears her father tell her not to get on the plane and the story of what happens if Summer doesn’t answer the call and travels to her father’s home in France.
Before she boards the plane, her phone rings. Summer is ready to embark on an amazing summer in France, visiting her artist father in his home in Provence.
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