In Summer

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Summary: A summer spent in good company!
Review: Leo Peery has just graduated from High School and we follow him through the last summer of his childhood (or is it the first summer of his adulthood?) Handsome, smart and amiable Leo helps his cousin on the family farm, works as a lifeguard, discovers startling information about his mother, gets together with an old girlfriend and with some other girls as well, is nice to small children, goes fishing, restores a car, enjoys life, worries, has a few nasty accidents, makes some mistakes, survives, learns and grows. That's really all there is to it, and what a lovely journey it is. If the story is not as compelling as Jackson's remarkable first novel, Life At These Speeds, it is still a lovely read, full of the joy and beauty of life's simple pleasures. And if the dialogue sometimes seems too clever to be entirely believable, it is so fun to read that all is forgiven. This is Jackson's 2nd novel (he has also written two cookbooks) and I can hardly wait to see what comes next.