The Summer of Naked Swim Parties A Novel [Paperback]

Fourteen-year-old Jamie will never forget the summer of 1976. It's the summer when she has her first boyfriend, cute surfer Flip Jenkins; it's the summer when her two best friends get serious about sex, cigarettes, and tanning; it's the summer when her parents throw, yes, naked swim parties, leaving Jamie flushed with embarrassment. And it's the summer that forever changes the way Jamie sees the things that matter: family, friendship, love, and herself.

Sadly, not a photo essay, but rather a witty account of the agonies and ecstasies of a girl coming of age in late-seventies California.High and low comedy, nude swimming, and familial frenzy float through [THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES] like pot smoke.Reading this heartfelt and humorous coming-of-age story is the perfect way to spend a hot summer day.A fantastic beach read about painful adolescence in the 1970s.Move over, summer of love. Here comes the summer of naked swim parties . . . [Blau] knows adolescence inside out . . . [S]he skewers what needs skewering and celebrates the rest with humor, style, and an appropriate degree of affection.Jessica Anya Blaus debut novel, THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES, is a delight: a California beach girls hilariously painful adolescence in the High 1970s.You may think youve heard this story before, but no one tells it as wittily, winningly, wisely and well as Jessica Anya Blau.This book will make you laugh and cry in public. Jessica Anya Blau has written a soaring teenage lament, perfectly pitched, containing the single saddest and funniest line of seduction ever uttered.Funny and charming, moving and sweetJessica Anya Blau beautifully captures the awkwardness and the wonder of coming of age. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties is a remarkable debut novel.Once you dive in to this sweet, sparkling coming of age story, dripping with heart and heartbreak, you wont want to come up -- even for air.Among the many truths in this intelligent, funny novelC(