![]() ![]() Oliver (“He’s fourteen, like me, but he looks about thirty years old… Somehow he looks like a bachelor. “Look, we’re too far from Boston and there is no place to eat around here- and there is plenty of people money, or guys that want to take girls out on dates.” The Plot: Before the book opens, the father of 14-year-old twins Carla and Oliver Simon has moved out of their small-town Massachusetts home and into an apartment in Manhattan in full mid-life crisis mode, he needs to “find himself” and finally write that novel.Ĭarla and Oliver had decided not to attend summer camp, worried about leaving their mother alone and bereft with their college-aged older brother, Ralph, whom the twins regard as kind of a meathead.īored, with the whole summer stretching out before them, Oliver hits upon the idea of using his interest in gourmet cooking to open a restaurant in the ski lodge adjacent to their property, since it is closed for the season, reasoning: ![]() Most of the heavy-duty ISSUES are reserved for the parents and older siblings here. ![]() This week’s volume is somewhat tamer in terms of content, perhaps targeted at a slightly younger demographic, and featuring slightly younger main characters. Norma Klein is best known for her controversy-courting YA novels of the 1970s in books like Angel Face and Love is One of the Choices, the teenaged protagonists deal regularly with drugs, sex, abortions, terrible parents. Suddenly, summer becomes a time of self-discovery… ![]()
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