The Summer Boy: A Novel Janell Cannon riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad

riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad

grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma

right down to her favorite black pumps

But not this year

and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution

The Summer Boy: A Novel Janell Cannon riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroadOn an island off the coast of France, six teenagers come together for a summer of desire and discovery until one of them vanishes forever, leaving the rest with an enduring mystery. Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly? In the summer of 1985, on a scruffy resort island off the coast of France, six teenagersfive boys and one girlband together for a final golden season before adulthood. Their days are drenched