500 Great Books By Women discussion

Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad, Bebe Moore Campbell, 1989, United States, AUTOBIOGRAPHY

"Sweet Summer reverberates with love—the idolatrous reverence of a young girl for the father she sees only during her summers in North Carolina, the complicated passions of an adolescent who becomes aware of her father's failings, the balanced love of daughter with a husband and child of her own...Sweet Summer is a book about growing up, about new clothes and mosquito bites, about being one of too few black students in an integrated school, about family rituals and ties, about loving your parents and not understanding divorce..."

(E.B., p. 135)