num_pages: 384
description: In this complex and emotionally resonant novel debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage secrets and all the spectrums that make up a personand the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth.Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. Shell be working in her familys ice cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriendwhose kisses never made her feel desire only discomfortand her former best friend King who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word.But when she gets a letter from her biological fathera man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his lifeLou immediately knows that she cannot meet him no matter how much he insists.While Kings friendship makes Lou feel safer and warmer than she would have thought possible when her familys business comes under threat she soon realizes that she cant ignore her father forever.
language: English
title: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
publisher: Heartdrum