2022/009: Summer -- Ali Smith

2022/009: Summer -- Ali Smith

We’re always looking for the full open leaf, the open warmth, the promise that we’ll one day soon surely be able to lie back and have summer done to us; one day soon we’ll be treated well by the world. [loc. 3003]

Summer opens in Brighton, where siblings Sacha (16) and Robert (13) co-exist in uneasy opposition, while their mother Grace dreams of her long-gone acting career and their father lives in the house next door with his new girlfriend, Ashley, who has stopped speaking. Sacha's mother voted 'Leave', their father voted 'Remain'. Sacha is passionate about the environment: Robert is not really passionate about anything, except possibly offending people( Read more... )