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Cover of Speaking of Summer

Speaking of Summer

✍ Scribed by Buckhanon, Kalisha


Publisher
Counterpoint
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
196 KB
Edition
First hardcover edition
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


"Speaking of Summer gives us a powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America." β€”Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
Named a Best Book of the Summer by USA Today, O: The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New York Post, CrimeReads, Essence, Bustle and more.

On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked, and the snow holds only one set of footprints. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing Black woman, Autumn must pursue the search for her sister all on her own.
With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. But the loss becomes too great, the mystery too inexplicable, and Autumn starts to unravel, all the while becoming obsessed with the various...


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