Summer Sisters Summary
Judy Blume

Summer Sisters Overview

The novel “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume details the lives of two very different women from their grade school years through their tumultuous years of dating and searching for meaning their lives. As children, the two spent their summers together at an island house owned by Caitlin’s family. They were summer sisters who declared a lifetime of love and friendship to one another. Themes in the novel include friendship, romantic love and the dissimilarities in people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.