NIGHT OWLS AND SUMMER SKIES

After she leaves the Boston home she shares with her father and arrives in Maine, Emma’s reluctance turns to astonishment: Her mother reveals she has gotten married, is going on a honeymoon, and is dumping Emma at Camp Mapplewood. Emma’s astonishment then turns to dread. Five summers ago, when she was 12, fellow campers Lauren and Mike inflicted trauma on her at that very camp, leaving her trapped high up in a tree above a wasps’ nest—despite her serious allergy to their stings. Emma has been managing depression and PTSD ever since. Emma is additionally disturbed when she discovers Lauren will be one of her cabin mates. Over the next two months, Emma learns many lessons as she copes with her fears, forms close relationships with members of the family who run the camp, and engages in a slow-motion romance. Told from Emma’s point of view, the book is rife with implausible situations, such as counselors setting up an activity designed to encourage campers to act out violently against one another. The stilted dialogue tries too hard to be witty banter, the characters are underdeveloped and their motivations are unclear, and the plot is flimsy. Whiteness of all characters is implied.

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