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In their debut coming-of-age novel The Wasp’s Nest, co-authors and lifelong friends Tamara Southward and Haley Crawford open a door to the constricted and elite world of Lake Owlsgrove, where best friends Avery Breckenridge and Rose Harleston find independence the summer before heading off to university.
Having each written over ten books and prose collections throughout their lives, the authors have come together to create a summer read in which the female leads navigate predetermined expectations, friendship, first love, loss, and the choices that feel life-defining on the brink of new adulthood.
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
– Stephen King
“So please, please, please let me get what I want… Lord knows, it would be the first time.”
– The Smiths
“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
– J.D. Salinger
“You are ahead by a century.”
– The Tragically Hip
“Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don’t criticize what you can’t understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.”
– Bob Dylan