The story begins by giving background information on the narrator and her family. She describes her memory of a specific summer spent at the beach in North Carolina. At 13 she was dividing her time between sun bathing and fishing. The family spends the summer in a sleepy little beach town and every year is just like the last. Except this year, the arrival of two women at the cottage change everything. The narrator gives these …showed first 75 words of 297 total…

…showed last 75 words of 297 total…was what was happening all around the scenes involving them. It was wonderful how everything the author noted grabbed my attention and I wanted to know everything she had written about it there. She really clarified the picture I created in my mind. After reading this I am very interested in finding more work by this author. Just to find out how all her stories turn out. Whether they are childhood memories or purely imagined.