Summer: A Novel

Ali Smith

Book 4 of Seasonal Quartet

Language: English

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: Aug 24, 2020

Description:

“A prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment.” 
—Dwight Garner, *The New York Times
In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just
is* trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown­—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they’re living on borrowed time.

This is a story about people on the brink of change. They’re family, but they think they’re strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what do people who think they’ve got nothing in common have in common?

Summer.