P L O T
When Spencer Walker is given a creative writing task to write a novel about summer, she decides to write about the summer before she went to university - a summer in which she learns the meaning of family, friendships and above all, being true to one's self.
E P I T H E T
"We must send a message across the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence - the shame is on the aggressor."
- Angelina Jolie
T R I G G E R S
Sexual abuse
Drugs
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The Summer Innocence Was Lost
Teen Fiction"Of my twenty three summers -of which I have naturally forgotten those which occurred before the age of five- only one has left a strong enough impression on me. It is a summer I both wish to forget and hold onto and the struggle to bring them to an...
