Drawn by her need to understand her parents' betrayal, Summer finds her carefully curated calm giving way to a very necessary storm - one that brings Summer, her cousin and even her friends closer together. It's the only way she can make it to eighteen and true and legal freedom: by not trusting the adults in her life and by quashing her conflicted hopes of reuniting with her parents.īut the discovery of a mysterious letter from her parents to an estranged family friend throws a wrench in Summer's plans. Despite Oluchi's eager offers of companionship, Summer continues to keep her guard up and her expectations of Olu low. When Summer is discovered to be living alone, without a guardian or a permanent residence, for a whole year, she is sent to live with a cousin who seems to have it all - wealth, talent, charm and the thing Summer craves most of all: freedom. Under investigation for fraud, Summer's mother and father have left town without a word, leaving a stunned seventeen-year-old Summer behind.
louisaonome.Summer and her parents are on the run, each in their own way. She currently resides in the Toronto area. When she is not writing, her hobbies include picking up languages she may never use, crying over her favorite video games, and perfecting her skin-care routine. She holds a BA in professional writing from York University. Louisa Onomé is the Nigerian Canadian author of critically acclaimed young adult novel Like Home. But with her cousin and friends' efforts, maybe Summer can learn to open up again? About the Author Life with Olu is awkward for many reasons. Summer doesn’t expect her to find any relative, so she’s very surprised to hear that she’ll be living with her cousin Olu-someone she hasn’t seen in years, who’s only a year older, and who’s a famous singer in Japan last she heard. So it’s extra annoying when a nosy social worker gets involved. She just has to turn eighteen in a few weeks and then she’ll really and truly be free to do whatever she wants. Sure, her parents left her behind when they went on the run after being accused of committing a crime last year.
After her parents go on the run, a teenage girl placed in the care of a cousin she barely knows learns to trust and open up in The Melancholy of Summer, a lyrical YA contemporary coming-of-age story by Louisa Onomé.ĭoesn’t she see? I can do this on my own.
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