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Original Title:	The Summer Demands
ISBN:	1948226308 (ISBN13: 9781948226301)
Edition Language:	English

The Summer Demands

Deborah Shapiro

Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.08 | 370 Users | 65 Reviews

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Title	:	The Summer Demands
Author	:	Deborah Shapiro
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	June 4th 2019 by Catapult
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT

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On the verge of her fortieth birthday, and shaken by a recent miscarriage, Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts. She and her husband move onto the property and make grand plans to revitalize the land. But they soon discover that their inheritance includes an unexpected guest. On a walk through the old campgrounds, she once frequented as a girl, Emily discovers, living undetected in one of the cabins, a magnetic twenty-two-year-old named Stella.
As the two women begin spending time together—talking and drinking, swimming in the lake, watching seductive French films through long afternoons—Emily finds herself playing at performing various roles relative to Stella: friend, mother, lover. Each encounter they share promises to bring Emily a little closer to an understanding of her own identity, but it also puts her marriage and future at risk. How much does she really know about Stella? Why is Stella here, and what does she want, and what might she take with her, if and when she leaves?

Taking place over a single summer in a landscape that refuses to be tamed, The Summer Demands is a beautiful, quietly startling exploration of the sting of seduction, of unspoken female rage, and of how desire and ambition shift over time. It advances Deborah Shapiro’s place as one of America’s most captivating writers—a novelist who “adroitly conveys women’s complicated intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).

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The Summer Demands, by Deborah Shapiro ....is smoky- sultry- artful in style- captivating - beautifully written- tantalizing & alluring .....a story about seduction that I found seductive to read. NO SPOILERS.... just hints to tease.....Emily and David - (married- entering their 40s) - move from Chicago to Massachusetts to take over an abandoned Summer Camp that Emily inherited from her aunt and uncle. The plan was to restore the camp and turn it into an upscale retreat - host various

The perfect novel to read on a hammock or at the beach. THE SUMMER DEMANDS feels like warm sun on your skin with your eyes closed and the smell of sunscreen. This novel is stunningly written and so astute about intimacy and women's relationships. The setting of an empty summer camp felt both otherworldly and nostalgic. Deborah Shapiro is a gorgeous writer.

Pretentious. Nothing happens.

Loved this book - mysterious, sexy, full summer on the page. So smoothly and elegantly written too.

For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong I really enjoyed this one! Shapiro's writing is really good, very descriptive. I was pulled in at once. These female characters are really well written. They both had such depth to them. I was facinated by Emily's character because she had this history to her, and a longing for things. While Stella was youthful and had a mystical quality to her that was very bewitching and mysterious. I had to keep reading to find out what would

This book is essentially an academic romance. That is, it is romance novel that is couched in literary language, feminist treatise, and philosophical thought. In general, Im not a fan of romance, and that could be why I wasnt a big fan of this novel. I did actually enjoy the writing, which was uniquea short, staccato style of prose that verges at times on poetry. The movement between action and exposition (wandering thoughts of the narrator, Emily, who is trying to figure her 40-year-old self

You can read my full review here: (https://sagebaileyspeaks.tumblr.com/p...)This is a short novel with super gay vibes, that feels cool, breezy and undemanding. The perfect beach read.