You'll always be my Summer Sister.

My favorite book should come as no surprise. My favorite book is Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. Summer Sisters is one of her only adult novels. It’s a story about two young girls Caitlin and Victoria (or Vix for short), who are total opposites but become best friends and spend every summer together in Martha’s Vineyard. As they grow up, they begin dating two boys, who are also best friends. On Victoria’s seventeenth birthday at the beach, Caitlin betrays Vix by kissing her boyfriend. After that, things begin to fall apart. Vix leaves the cottage that she stayed in with Caitlin and her family, and Caitlin begins dating Vix’s old boyfriend. VIx’s autistic brother also dies, and she has to go home to see to that. They begin to grow further apart when Vix goes to Harvard and gets an education and Caitlin makes a living on odd jobs and travels the world. After years of not seeing each other and barely talking, Caitlin calls Vix up and invites her to her wedding, to the man that Vix had been in love with for ten years. She agrees to go and to also be a bridesmaid, but it’s incredibly difficult. Years pass, and Caitlin has a child but her marriage falls apart. Vix visits Caitlin in Italy, and they have a heart to heart about their pasts together. They reveal that no matter how many boys, arguments, or miles are between them, they will always be best friends (and it makes me cry every time). Caitlin ends up dying and Vix takes care of her daughter, appropriately named Summer. My explanation of it makes it sound unbelievably corny and cliché, but I can guarantee you that it’s not. It’s a great book, and it’s been my favorite ever since eight grade. It also has a special place in my heart because it is almost an exact story of me and my best friend, minus the marriage and children and such. We spend every summer together in a cottage at Crystal Beach, and we are literally like “summer sisters”. Both of us have only brothers, so this story is very relatable to me. It’s an impeccable story that will make you laugh and cry, but you’ll be glad you read it if you choose to do so!