{"product_id":"gypsy-moth-summer-paperback","title":"Gypsy Moth Summer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Fierro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Gypsy Moth Summer\u003c\/i\u003e plunges the reader into a hazy, hot daydream of hidden truth, scandal, and racial prejudice.\" - Jodi Picoult, author of Small Great Things \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island conversation and the inescapable soundtrack of the season. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall--only daughter of Avalon's most prominent family--returns with her husband, a botanist, and their children to live in \"The Castle,\" the island's grandest estate. Leslie's husband Jules is African-American, and their children bi-racial, and islanders from both sides of the tracks form fast and dangerous opinions about the new arrivals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaddie Pencott LaRosa straddles those tracks: a teen queen with roots in the tony precincts of East Avalon and the crowded working class corner of West Avalon, home to Grudder Aviation factory, the island's bread-and-butter and birthplace of generations of bombers and war machines. Maddie falls in love with Brooks, Leslie's and Jules' son, and that love feels as urgent to Maddie as the questions about the new and deadly cancers showing up across the island. Could Grudder Aviation, the pride of the island--and its patriarch, the Colonel--be to blame? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the gypsy moths burst from cocoons in flocks that seem to eclipse the sun, Maddie's and Brooks' passion for each other grows and she begins planning a life for them off Avalon Island. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivid with young lovers, gangs of anxious outsiders; a plotting aged matriarch and her husband, a demented military patriarch; and a troubled young boy, each seeking his or her own refuge, escape and revenge, Julia Fierro's \u003ci\u003eThe Gypsy Moth Summer \u003c\/i\u003eis about love, gaps in understanding, and the struggle to connect: within families; among friends; between neighbors and entire generations.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJULIA FIERRO is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Gypsy Moth Summer \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCutting Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in\u003ci\u003e Buzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, a creative home to more than 3,500 writers in NYC, Los Angeles and online, in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693704712255,"sku":"9781250087522","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/91ae68d7b751b2fd416c3923beb7564d.webp?v=1764999698","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/gypsy-moth-summer-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}