In love with Sonna

Author: Simmons
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The novel's sentence is like a core of dynamite, sparking a series of subsequent stories—it’s just so captivating! A teenager’s love adventure in such stories makes this book a perfectly crafted gem. A masterful work with a light touch. Simmons discovers a voice that is perfect, fragile, and melancholic. Charlie Simmons opens the novel with such brief and sorrowful words. The summer of that year is filled with humorous interludes and poignant scenes. On the novel’s dedication page, Charlie Simmons quotes a passage from’s "First Love," modestly calling it a practice piece in tribute to Turgenev. The war takes place on a summer cape, where two vacationing families—a teenager and his parents, along with their boarders, a mother-daughter pair with a unique way of doing things—reside. The father cherishes the teenager, who falls in love with the neighbor girl, Sonna. The teenager is fifteen, and Sonna is twenty. He loves her, but he can never quite figure out Sonna’s true feelings for him. The yearning for innocence, the desire of the flesh, the bond between father and son, and the love between men and women surge onto the summer cape and into the teenager’s heart. The salty droplets on the teenager’s cheeks can no longer distinguish whether they are splashing waves or tears rolling down his eyes. The summer of fifteen, the last pure season.