Goodbye Summers

by Nick Sadler

Unless you become a teacher, one day you won't have summers off. It's easy to say that, but comprehending a lifestyle where you don't get to hit reset once a year and remake yourself is another matter. For two decades, you're conditioned to think life is divided into chapters, but with graduation it all stops. While sometimes it may technically be summer, it won't mean anything.Allison, Ant, Megan, and Travis are in the middle of their last real summer. Having graduated from school, they feel under pressure to make plans, or at least memories. But while the Oak Valley music scene is exciting and the weather is ... alright, what does having three months off matter?Nick Sadler's debut novel is a fond, yet honest, farewell to a youth spent hanging out at record shops and watching bands. The cast of Goodbye Summers, helped and hindered by friends, family, new faces, and cats, attempt to shake themselves out of a suburban stupor and make something of themselves. If they can keep from getting distracted, that is ...

136 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2012