Summer

In the present, Sasha knows that everything is going wrong. Her brother Robert is a walking disaster. Things don’t go well between her mother and father. And the world is in chaos—and it will only get worse. But last summer was wonderful. Her other brother and sister still didn’t know what awaited them ahead. This is a story about people on the threshold of major changes. They’re family, but they feel like strangers to one another. So where does a family begin? And what do people have in common who think nothing ties them together? Summer. “Summer” is the long-awaited final part of the seasonal quartet. The cycle began back in 2016, and the first novel, “Autumn,” made it to the Booker shortlist for 2017. Since then, two more novels have been released—“Winter” and “Spring”—and Ali Smith’s prose has won over many readers. And it has also been honored time and again by various foreign and domestic publications. In “Summer,” the last book of the seasonal cycle, we’ll learn about Sasha and her family living in our time. As always, Ali Smith’s text is incredibly “in the moment,” and the very latest, most current events of world history will be captured on these pages.