Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Summary
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.
For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
Book Setting: Barry’s Bay, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Barry’s Bay - The town where Percy and her family have their summer cottage
Algonquin Provincial Park - A popular tourist spot in Barry’s Bay
Kamaniskeg Lake - The lake the Fraser’s cottage was on
Roncesvalles - The Polish neighborhood in Toronto where present-day Percy lives
University of Toronto - Where Percy’s parents worked and where she attended university
Queen’s University - Where Sam and Deliliah attend university
Wilno Tavern - The inspiration for The Tavern, Sam’s family restaurant.
Stedman’s - The store in town where Sam took Percy to buy a bathing suit
Reviews
“The depth and [breadth] of each of the central characters was phenomenal. From only a few pages in, I felt the intense connection between Percy and Sam, as well as the love and attachment each one had to their families.”
– Maren’s Reads (A GoodReads Review)
“Every Summer After by Carley Fortune is an emotional and beautifully written coming-of-age story that I simply loved.”
– The Bashful Bookworm
“So grab this New York Times Bestseller Bookstagram darling and take it where you feel most like yourself—whether that’s your couch, the beach, or maybe even a lake—and prepare yourself to be sucked into Percy and Sam’s story. Because once you start Every Summer After, you won’t be able to put it down.”
– The Everygirl