The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares Reviewed by Kim Edwards
Washington Post Book World
"For many of us, there's a place ? a beach or a farm or the cold, clear waters of a lake ? where we locate our nostalgia for lost summers. For the characters in Ann Brashares's The Last Summer (of You and Me), this place is Fire Island. Here, sisters Riley and Alice and their neighbor Paul have spent the summers of their childhoods, maintaining a fierce loyalty to each other through the turbulence of adolescence and the encroachments of adult realities. Fire Island has been a separate reality, a place apart...." Read the entire Washington Post Book World review.