Set during what should be an idyllic summer at Awago Beach, somewhere in Ontario, This One Summer follows three sets of buckling relationships: Rose Wallace and her slightly younger, summers-only friend Windy, who are approaching adolescence timidly and from increasingly different points of view Rose’s parents, Alice and Evan, whose marriage is straining over what at first seems to be her mother’s depression and, emerging from the background, a teenager named Jenny who discovers that she’s pregnant with the child of the teenage Dunc, who works the tiny Awago convenience store. Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki’s poignant graphic novel shows again and again how the in-between quality of summertime can be real and illusive, a suspension of time that nonetheless begins a transition. It feels like flying.” But it’s worth noting that Rose clings to an inner-tube as she says this no one can float forever, not safely, anyway. Summer is float-time for some people, especially kids, and as This One Summer‘s pre-adolescent protagonist Rose says, “It feels good.
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