Eighteen-year-old Anabelle?s last few months in her coastal hometown are bittersweet. Instead of the quiet precollege summer she expects, Anabelle makes some surprising discoveries about herself as she navigates romantic entanglements and changing friendships. Through shifting points of view in seven interconnected stories, we glimpse the limits of how well her friends really know Anabelle . . . and how little she grasps about the way they see her. With wry observations and quirky humor, critically acclaimed novelist Hillary Frank gives voice and depth to six unique characters whose stories intertwine to form a complete picture of one shared summer.

After getting into a fight with his best friend, Jake is determined to use writing as his only source of communication henceforth, yet even after becoming a talented scribe, communication challenges still exist when trying to write a letter to a special female friend. Simultaneous.

A freshman art student from Manhattan spends her first year away from home in New England.