I could feel the flush rising up from my chest. “WHAT? You and Jeremiah?” Steven looked sickened. “Belly, do you still like Conrad? From the looks of things last summer, I thought there might be something between you and Jeremiah.” My mother stuck her head in between our two seats. “Are you thinking about Conrad?” he asked mockingly.įor once the answer was no. Like it had been waiting for me to get there. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. I rolled down the window and took it all in. It held a million promises of summer and of what just might be.Īs we got closer and closer to the house, I could feel that familiar flutter in my chest. It was like coming home after you’d been gone a long, long time. Seeing the town again, Jimmy’s Crab Shack, the Putt Putt, all the surf shops. We drove through town slowly, and even though I’d just teased Steven about it, I didn’t really mind. It was what bothered him most about our parents being divorced, being the lone guy, without our dad to take his side. We both had terrible voices, and Steven shook his head in his disgusted Steven way. I sang even louder, which woke up my mother, and she started to sing too. “Belly, your voice makes me want to run this car into the ocean.” He pretended to swerve right. Steven reached over to switch stations, and I slapped his hand away. Tom Petty was singing “Free Fallin’.” I sang right along with him. I found my favorite station, the one that played everything from pop to oldies to hip-hop. I was as familiar with them as I was with the ones back home, and listening to Q94 made me just really know inside that I was there, at the beach. One of my favorite things about going to the beach was the radio stations.
Steven ignored me, and so I started to fiddle with the radio. “That guy in a wheelchair just lapped us!” “Hey, look,” I said, pointing out the window. “People like you shouldn’t even be allowed to drive.” “If you ever get your license,” he scoffed. “And take your dirty feet off my dashboard.” “Go faster,” I urged Steven, poking him in the shoulder. Even when she slept, she looked alert, like at any second she could wake up and direct traffic. Meanwhile, my mother was passed out in the backseat. I sat next to him in the passenger seat with my feet up on the dashboard. My brother, Steven, drove slower than our Granna. He's a straight-A student, star athlete, and responsible boy, but this summer, he mysteriously becomes moody and distant.We’d been driving for about seven thousand years. She's Laurel's "warm-hearted, free-spirited" best friend who hosts their families every summer at her luxurious beach house.Ĭhristopher Briney ( Dali Land) plays Conrad, Belly's crush. Rachel Blanchard ( You Me Her, Deep Water) plays Susannah. "Since her divorce a year ago, Laurel has been stressed and unfocused, which is affecting her writing for the first time in her career."
Jackie Chung ( Coming Home Again, Grey's Anatomy) plays Laurel, Belly's mom and a novelist "with a wry sense of humor and an aversion to technology," per Amazon. Tung is a graduate of New York's famous LaGuardia High School and is currently studying at Carnegie Mellon. Now that her longtime crush, Conrad Fisher, is paying attention to her, she's adjusting to the sudden attention. "The lead of the series, Belly used to be gawky and awkward, but this summer she turns 16 and she is starting to turn heads-and it's taking some getting used to," Amazon shared in a press release. The sequel, It's Not Summer Without You, arrived in 2011, and the third book, We'll Always Have Summer, was published in 2012.Īmazon has announced the first members of the cast. The Summer I Turned Pretty was first published in 2009. "It is a coming-of-age story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer," Deadline reported.
The "multigenerational drama" is also expected to highlight the relationship between mothers and their children and female friendships. The Summer I Turned Pretty follows Isabel "Belly" Conklin, a girl caught in a love triangle between two brothers, but the focus isn't solely on young romance. For those newly discovering the Summer series, I hope you fall in love with these characters and this place that is so dear to my heart." For the longtime book fans, I think it will have been worth the wait. There's no official date yet for the eight-episode series, but Han said in a statement, " The Summer I Turned Pretty is many years in the making, and I’m so excited to tell Belly’s story in 2021.
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The author's YA novel The Summer I Turned Pretty is being adapted into a series for Amazon, Variety reported. Jenny Han's To All the Boys trilogy might have come to a close on Netflix, but another one of her books will soon get the screen treatment.