The Summer Boy: A Novel by Philippe Besson, Sam Taylor Scribner Book Company * Pineapple Foster

* Pineapple Foster

“Utterly compelling and impossible to put down

”—from the Foreword by Samin Nosrat

she discovers how to sustain herself in a precarious world

Santo couldn’t be more excited to go to America—and to see his father again

The Summer Boy: A Novel by Philippe Besson, Sam Taylor Scribner Book Company * Pineapple FosterOn an island off the coast of France, six teenagers come together for a summer of desire and discovery until one of them vanishes forever, leaving the rest with an enduring mystery. Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly? In the summer of 1985, on a scruffy resort island off the coast of France, six teenagersfive boys and one girlband together for a final golden season before adulthood. Their days are drenched