The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me: A Novel - Softcover

Orlando Sentinel A haunting first novel...captivating...Kingsbury's prose is measured and luminous. William Gay author of I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down Kingsbury's elegy to desire and redemption and the prices you ultimately pay for them catches the reader on the first page and continues to resonate in the mind long after the epilogue is finished. Kingsbury makes an auspicious arrival, and she isn't leaving anytime soon. The Hartford Courant The most vivid, drenched-in-place rendering of Mississippi isn't some long-lost but newly found William Faulkner story. It's a first novel by a lifelong New Englander, Suzanne Kingsbury. With lush, lovely language, Kingsbury evokes the sultry summer heat like someone who has lived there her whole life.

An enormously talented young writer has crafted a pitch-perfect, cinematic first novel rich with unforgettable characters, mesmerizing prose, and smoldering sexual tension. With a fresh and vivid rendering of timeless themes, this novel captures the exhilaration of first love and the consequences of rebellion in a place resistant to change.