That Summer
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Author | Sarah Dessen |
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Country | United States of America |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Young Adult Novel |
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- This is a page about a book by Sarah Dessen. For the book of the same name by Andrew Greig, see That Summer (Andrew Greig)
That Summer is Sarah Dessen's first 1996 novel.
[edit] Plot summary
For fifteen-year-old Haven (tall, lanky, bordering on six feet) it's a summer framed by two weddings: her father's to Lorna Queen (the "Weather Pet" of the local TV station) and her sister's to dull-as-dishwater Lewis Warsher, a boy Haven can't imagine plucky Ashley being attracted to. Nothing seems stable except for Haven's memories- especially those of the summer when Ashley dated Sumner Lee, who made her parents laugh and loosened Ashley up. Around Sumner, even Haven felt special. Suddenly Sumner reappears in her life, a link to that perfect past- and her future.