Summer

Summer is the narrator of the novel and the main character in the story. Summer is a twelve-year-old girl coming to terms with the death of her Aunt May, the only mother she's ever really known. When Summer was a baby, her mother died and she was sent from family member to family member looking for a permanent place to live. While she was moving around, Summer never felt loved and she was always hungry. When she was six, however, she met her Uncle Ob and Aunt May, and they took her home, really home, to live.

Upon arriving at Ob and May's Summer felt overwhelmed with love, which prompted her to remember what few memories she had of her birth mother showing her affection: "I know I must have been loved like that, even if I can't remember it. I must have; otherwise how could I even...