num_pages: 336
description: Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale Brother and Sister Michelle Ruiz Keils second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early 90s Portland.All her life seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother Orr. But this summer with their mother gone at an artist residency their father decides its time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When he brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news Orr has already been sent away. Furious at his betrayal Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle bow and arrow at the ready offering Iph a place to hide out while she figures out how to track down Orr.Orr in the meantime has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies an all-girl punk band and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house. In their first summer apart Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music romance and sex work activismand find each other to try to stop a transformation that could fracture their family forever.Told through a lens of magical realism and steeped in myth Summer in the City of Roses is a dazzling tale about the pain and beauty of growing up.
language: English
title: Summer in the City of Roses
publisher: Soho Teen