~Post by Nolan
What if you aren’t born innocent? Everyone is shaped by an experience and grows old in some way or another. You realize the world isn’t the place it was and you’re given new insights and new eyes that shade your existence just a little. But what if you aren’t born innocent? What if you’ve come into this world knowing it wasn’t made for you and every experience just validates your theory? Focused around teenagers Jim and L.A. after they find the dead body of a young girl, Tom Wright’s What Dies in Summer explores such a world. It’s hard to classify such a novel as a coming-of-age or a loss-of-innocence story because there never was any innocence. In the summer time, when children are supposed to be wild and free, something else lingers with Wright’s rich characters. What can you lose when you never had a chance?
Tom Wright reads from What Dies in Summer here at BookPeople this Friday, June 22, 7p.
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