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Jan 17, 2013
Summer Sisters follows the lives of Caitlyn and Victoria, two unlikely girls from different social backgrounds. Caitlin invites Victoria to stay the summer with her in Martha's Vineyard; shy Victoria can't imagine why someone as glamorous as Caitlin would want to be friend someone as boring as herself. The two of them form a complex friendship of love and rivalry that spans from the 1970s to the 1990s. These girls share moments of soaring loyalty and heartbreaking betrayal, and I was stuck turning pages as fast as I could read, all the while wishing this story would never end. The settings are so real I could have plucked from my own childhood. Although this book came out in 1998, I feel it is one of our hidden gems here at BPL.