The Myth of Perpetual Summer by Susan CrandallMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to have a free, digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I would compare this book to To Kill a Mockingbird. This has got to be the best fictional book I have read in a long time. Tallulah James ran away from her southern home to escape a dysfunctional family. She ends up in San Fransisco. She has not intentions of returning until she sees on the news that her baby brother has been arrested for murder. Intent on trying to save him, she goes back home and relives her past along the way. Her past is filled with a father with undiagnosed manic depression, a mother who would rather save Africa than be a mother, and many past family secrets. The book goes back and forth between what Tallulah is discovering on her journey back home and her encounters when she ran away from home. At the end, Tallulah discovers that the myth of perpetual summer (in the south and in California) is truly a myth.
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