Home for the Summer

Home For The Summer is the merciless tale of a disturbed teenage girl returning from two years in a mental facility. Alice is “funny, sharp-witted, and in some ways deeply moral” (New York Times Review of Books), but she is also capable of unpredictable cruelty and violence. As the novel unfolds, secrets from the past are revealed, and a simple narrative becomes a gripping parable about the disintegration of the American family. Alice is in a state of violence like America itself.