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MY REVIEW
Jamie Brenner is one of my favorite authors, and I loved everything about her newest novel, “A Novel Summer”. In this well-written and captivating novel, I appreciate how Jamie Brenner describes the importance of literacy, bookstores, authors, readers, friends and community. The author vividly describes the scenic landscape of Provincetown, on Cape Cod. The author describes her colorful and dramatic characters as complex and complicated. The Genres for this novel are Contemporary Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Romance and Fiction.
Shelby Archer is a published and established author, who goes home to visit two of her estranged friends. From Shelby’s novel, some of the people in Provincetown compare themselves to the fictional characters, and have conflicting feelings. Shelby’s ex-boyfriend is an environmentalist, and helps his community, but Shelby is anxious about seeing him and his family. One of Shelby’s friends owns the town bookstore, and is incapacitated and asks Shelby to help run it. At this time, it seems one of the bigger Bookstores will be competition for the small bookstore.
Jamie Brenner vividly describes the roles of publishing houses, agents, publicists, the difficulties of being a bookseller and an author. Literacy is so important to me, and I found that this was the perfect summer read. I highly recommend this book to others.
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