The Summer Demands

di Deborah Shapiro (Autore)

Catapult, 2019

Taking place over a single summer at an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this “sun–saturated tale of love and longing” explores the sting of seduction and how desire and ambition can shift through time and experience (Chicago Tribune). After Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts just before her fortieth birthday, she and her husband David move onto the property with grand plans to fix it up. Instead, Emily finds herself drifting, grieving her recent miscarriage and her own perceived lack of ambition, while David works in the city. Until the day Emily discovers that their new property includes an unexpected guest. Living undetected in one of the cabins is a magnetic twenty–two–year–old named Stella. Their immediate and intense connection expands and contracts over the course of an single summer, calling all of Emily’s relationships, including her marriage, into closer scrutiny. As the two women begin spending time together?talking and drinking, swimming in the lake, watching seductive French films through long afternoons?Emily finds herself playing at performing various roles relative to Stella: friend, mother, lover. Each encounter they share promises to bring Emily a little closer to an understanding of her own identity, but it also puts her marriage and future at risk. How much does she really know about Stella? Why is Stella here, and what does she want, and what might she take with her, if and when she leaves? Named one of the best books of the summer by O, The Oprah Magazine, this “sun–saturated tale of love and longing” is a “smart, funny, nuanced and seductive” read (Chicago Tribune). Startling yet dreamlike, The Summer Demands marks Deborah Shapiro as a master at capturing complex relationships and the electricity of what passes unsaid between people. The Summer Demands is also a look at the transitional points in our lives; nearing forty and grappling with the idea that she may never be a mother, Emily finds herself experiencing a summer out of time, at a place she knew intimately as a child, and delicately exploring what might be next Shapiro is a well-connected journalist who’s written for New York, Elle, The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and more, with ties to Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Her debut novel, The Sun in Your Eyes, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Bookseller Praise for The Summer Demands "A summer camp, maybe a chance to change directions in life. Well, yes, that is possible. Who knows what a summer will bring when you discover a young, beautiful stranger living in a cabin on the property you and your husband just inherited. Or what comes next when closeness becomes a reality, and then Alice arrives to complicate matters. Diving deeply into the mind and heart of Emily and her past, Ms. Shapiro brings us the reality that isn’t found in reality TV. Self-discovery can be a painful experience, but it can also set us free to find a brighter, wiser future. I think you’ll enjoy this one!" —Linda Bond, Auntie's Bookstore (Spokane, WA) "A beach read for the introspective set looking to read something cover-to-cover in a day. Both heady like a balmy night and refreshing like a dip in a cool lake. Shapiro captures a portrait of an aching and confused woman and lets her breathe in the exuberant air of summer." —Luis Correa, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA) "Emily doesn't know what to do with herself. She and her husband had plans to renovate the camp she inherited from her aunt, but work has stalled. With no other job prospects in sight, she is adrift in a listless echo of the eternity of childhood summers. So when she discovers a magnetic young woman staying on their property, she is more intrigued than alarmed. Despite her better judgment,

• Autore: Deborah Shapiro
• Anno edizione: 2019
• Editore: Catapult
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781948226318

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