A coming of age story about a girl who lives in Georgia in a normal, middle class family. Mia is sixteen, and her family is going to the Hamptons to spend the summer with her rich Aunt, Uncle and cousins. Mia and her cousin Corinne have been best friends as long as she can remember, and Mia is anxious to reach Wind Song, their beach home. Their family is perfect, unlike her own, and she can't wait to have the perfect summer with them. She is getting over being jilted by her boyfriend, and just wants to exchange confidences with Corinne, swim, and enjoy the beach.
Except...Corinne has a friend staying with her, and no longer seems interested in Mia. Mia begins to see flaws in the perfect family, and finds that her perfect summer is not turning out as she had dreamed it would. Her cousins and their friends are trendy, beautiful, tanned and slender; they are also drinking, doing drugs and smoking. Mia feels dumpy and out of place with them and their friends. She begins climbing out her window at night to walk on the beach, and slowly becomes friends with a boy whose 'nouveau riche' family is renting the house next door. He is not accepted by the 'in' crowd either, and also has a penchant for roaming the beach at night. Their friendship slowly grows, and begins to be something deeper. Then something happens that changes her life forever. While far from perfect, this becomes a summer that Mia will always remember.
I recommend this book. It is well written, and will tug at your heart strings, especially if you remember the angst of those teenage years.
306 pages
Deborah Stroup
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