Summer Book Lewis again employs his formidable

Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory

a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked--a novel about extinction and survival

this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story

written with clarity and grace

Summer Book Lewis again employs his formidableIn The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer its sunlight and storms into twenty two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six year old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends