Summer Sisters: A Novel
by Judy Blume
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Author: Judy BlumeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-05-27
ISBN: 0385337663
Number of pages: 399
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Classic, will keep on my shelf for rainy days forever
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read Summer Sisters right when it came out -- I was a teenager at sleepaway camp, but my mom had strict instructions to buy it and mail it to me immediately. I fell in love with it then, and continue to fall in love with it every time I read it (around once a year or so). Summer Sisters delivers the classic Judy Blume themes that I grew up on... sexuality, family, identity, etc -- but with a new, adult twist. I love how she really uses the locations (mainly New Mexico and Cape Cod) and the timing (70s, 80s, 90s) to weave in elements of popular culture. Although a lot of the book takes place before I was even born, it has a deliciously nostalgic feel that makes you feel at home. While it's an easy read and moves very quickly, it's not complete beach towel fluff or stereotypical "chick lit." The sex in the book is just trashy and graphic enough so that you know it's really Judy Blume, but not gratuitous or inappropriate.
Every girl above the age of 13 should own this book, and keep it around for life -- in fact, I just stole my copy away from my sister (biological, not summer).
Summary of Summer Sisters: A Novel
In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard?s world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha?s Vineyard, an enchanting place where the two friends become ?summer sisters.?Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin begs Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go?because Vix wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer. And, after all these years, she needs to know why her best friend?her summer sister?still has the power to break her heart.
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Judy Blume first won legions of fans with such young adult classics as Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and Forever, in which she tackles the cultural hot button of teenage sexuality. In Summer Sisters, her third novel for adults, the author again explores the ramifications of love--and lust--on two friends. Initially, the differences between Caitlin Somers and Victoria Leonard (or "Vix," as Caitlin christens her) draw them together: privileged Caitlin is wild and outspoken, beautiful but emotionally fragile, while working-class Vix is shy, reserved, and plain in comparison. After Caitlin selects Vix to accompany her to her father's home in Martha's Vineyard for the summer, the two become inextricably connected as "summer sisters."
On the Vineyard, Vix and Caitlin first find love, then sex--and lots of it. Yet Blume soon moves beyond hot fun in the summer sun, tracing the romantic and familial travails of the two from pre-adolescence to adulthood. Solid Vix evolves into Victoria, an equally solid, Harvard-educated, Manhattan public-relations exec. Unpredictable Caitlin opts out of college and travels to Europe, where she has a string of short-lived affairs with a series of intriguing (in every sense of the word) foreigners. It is only after she returns to the Vineyard that Caitlin does the unthinkable, forever changing both her friendship with Vix and their lives. Blume once again proves herself a master of the female psyche, and Summer Sisters is likely to entertain both her postadolescent and more mature readers.
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