![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She previously authored "How My Summer Went Up in Flames" for Simon Pulse and "Famous Last Words" from Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt. It had a lot of people and there was always that balance between the lazy days and the Heights at night."ĭoktorski is on the rise in the YA scene. Certainly, the fact that long-time friend Andrew is out of the friend zone and in her arms could complicate things.ĭoktorski frames the scenario with warmth, charm, and a first-class wit in this love letter to the Jersey Shore. That makes the summer after Sandy one of rebuilding a home and possibly rebuilding a relationship with Connor. In "The Summer After You and Me," Lucy is a Jersey Shore gal whose world is turned upside down by superstorm Sandy - and because she hooked up with summertime neighbor and crush Connor during the storm. She says she hates new because the 'new' reminds her of everything that is lost." You can smell salt water, you can smell the suntan lotion, you can smell it in the wood and the floor and when something is new, it smells like sawdust and fresh paint. "Shore houses in particular have a scent. "(Lucy) says she hates the smell of 'new,' " said Doktoski recently at the Sawmill in Seaside Park, where the spot's rebuilding did indeed bring on the smell of the new - at least over our lunch. ![]()
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