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Every Summer After

Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
 
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.

Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.

For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
 
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. 

Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

These book club questions are from the author's website.  A full book club kit can be found here

Book club questions for Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

Use these discussion questions to guide your next book club meeting.

Sam and Percy are fast friends. What do you think each gets from their relationship?
Have you had an important relationship—either platonic or romantic—that ended in a way that you wish you could get a do-over?
Sam and Percy’s romantic relationship began when they were very young. Do you think it would have survived had they not broken up? Did they need the time apart to ultimately end up together?
How do you think Charlie feels about Percy in the past and present?
What did you think of Delilah and her friendship with Percy? Do you see Delilah as a good friend? What about Percy?
How did Percy’s betrayal change your opinion of her? Do you sympathize with what she did? Do you think her act is forgivable?
As a teenager, Percy looks up to Sue, perhaps even more so than her own parents. Why do you think that is?
The story is told from Percy’s point of view. What moments do you wish you could have peeked inside Sam’s head?
In the final chapter, Sam tells Percy, “Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.” Do you agree with him? Or do you think “getting even” has merit?
The lake is Percy’s happy place, where she feels most creative and alive. What’s yours?

Every Summer After Book Club Questions PDF

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