![]() ![]() Sloan and Wolitzer nicely differentiate their protagonists’voices, making the emails believable even while the girls are seeing eachother every day at camp. ![]() Some Parent Trap–type shenanigans ensue, but the story’s main focus is thestrength of chosen family. ![]() But while Bett and Avery are busily planning a wedding, theirdads-whose misadventures in China are humorously detailed-are breakingup. The girls are resistant, especially set-in-her-ways Avery, but they graduallybecome non-enemies and then friends and then actually psyched to becomesisters, keeping up their correspondence even after camp ends (spoiler alert: theyget kicked out). ![]() Their fathers are semi-secretly, bi-coastally dating, and they wanttheir daughters to get to know each other while they themselves are vacationing inChina. At the start of this epistolary (via email) novel, twelve-year-olds Bett Devlin,an adventure-loving California girl of African American and Brazilian descent,and Avery Bloom, a tightly wound New Yorker whose single father is UkrainianJewish, are strangers (and adversaries) about to be thrown together at sleep-awaysummer camp. ![]()
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