The three girls usually hang out at Biz's home, in their red tree house, where they sleep every night of the summer. We are seeing the events of this summer through the eyes of Biz, who doesn't always understand what is going on but can often intuit that what is said is not what is meant.īiz's dad is the town doctor and her mom's sister has helped raise Biz since her mom died shortly after childbirth. In Every Now and Then, three eleven year old best friends are starting their summer with their to-do list of accomplishments that they plan to check off before the summer ends. Both take place in the early 60s and we have kids doing what they always do during a very hot summer. While the synopsis of this story likens it to Where the Crawdads Sing and This Tender Land, I think a much more apt comparison would be to the book, Ordinary Grace. A story about ties that bind forever, the timelessness of guilt and grief, and the everlasting hope for redemption. Six decades later, Biz remembers that long ago summer and how it still haunts her and her lifelong friends in Every Now and Then. Determined to uncover long-held secrets, the girls have no idea that what they discover could cost them their lives and the ones they hold dear. With a to-do list in hand, the girls set forth from their hideout to make their mark on that summer, but when three patients escape from Broadhurst Mental Institution, their idyllic lives take a sinister turn. But for Frankie, Viv, and Biz, eleven-year-old best friends, it would forever be remembered as the summer that evil paid a visit to their small town-and took their young lives as they'd known them as a souvenir. For kids seeking relief from the heat, there was a creek to be swum in, sprinklers to run through, and ice cream at Whitcomb's Drugstore. The summer of 1960 was the hottest ever for Summit, Wisconsin.

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and This Tender Land.Ī heartfelt coming-of-age story about three young girls searching for adventure during the summer of 1960 from the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark.

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