Summerlings is a novel written by Lisa Howorth. Released in 2019, it shows what happened in the summer of 1959 in the Washington D.C. suburb of Connors Lane.
Characters[]
- John
- Ivan
- Max
- Beatriz
- Elena
- Ezra Pound
- James Hampton
- Jacob Beser
- Camilo Cienfuegos
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Publisher's summary[]
It's the summer of 1959 in the seemingly tranquil suburbs of Washington, D.C. But our young narrator, John, and his best friends, Ivan and Max, know the truth: every door on their street could be hiding an escaped Nazi or a spy with secrets about the A-bomb. The entire city is being plagued by an inexplicable spider infestation--surely evidence of "insect warfare" by the Russians.
So when a rare vinegaroon--a whip scorpion--is discovered on Capitol Hill and sequestered for study at the Smithsonian, the boys, along with their tomboy accomplice, Beatriz, hatch a risky midnight plan to steal the deadly creature for their own devious purposes. Yet when the friends discover some very real instances of anti-Semitism and prejudice in the neighborhood, it's the shocking and tragic events stemming from a well-intentioned community-building potluck party that change their lives forever. A vibrantly voiced, heartfelt, and charming Cold War coming-of-age story, Summerlings captures the crystal-clear moments that mark the bittersweet reckoning of childhood's end.
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