The Melancholy of Summer by Louisa Onomé

She is also the author of the YA novels Like Home and Twice as Perfect.

Louisa Onomé is a Nigerian Canadian author who lives in Toronto. The Melancholy of Summer is for ages 13 and up. She holds a BA in professional writing from. But as Summer feels increasingly haunted by the absence - and jarring presence - of her parents, she must learn how to offer more of herself to herself. Louisa Onom is the Nigerian Canadian author of critically acclaimed young adult novel Like Home. Drawn by her need to understand her parents' betrayal, Summer finds her carefully curated calm giving way to a very necessary storm - one that brings Summer, her cousin and even her friends closer together. It's the only way she can make it to eighteen and true and legal freedom: by not trusting the adults in her life and by quashing her conflicted hopes of reuniting with her parents.īut the discovery of a mysterious letter from her parents to an estranged family friend throws a wrench in Summer's plans. Despite Oluchi's eager offers of companionship, Summer continues to keep her guard up and her expectations of Olu low. When Summer is discovered to be living alone, without a guardian or a permanent residence, for a whole year, she is sent to live with a cousin who seems to have it all - wealth, talent, charm and the thing Summer craves most of all: freedom. Under investigation for fraud, Summer's mother and father have left town without a word, leaving a stunned seventeen-year-old Summer behind. Life with Olu is awkward for many reasons-not least of all because Olu has her own drama to deal with.Summer and her parents are on the run, each in their own way. Summer doesn't expect any relative to be able to take her in, so she's very surprised to hear that she'll now be living with her cousin Olu-someone she hasn't seen in years, who's a famous singer in Japan last she heard, and who's not much older than Summer.

So it's extra annoying when a nosy social worker gets involved. She just has to turn eighteen in a few weeks and then she'll really and truly be free. And sure, she has trouble talking about any of this. Sure, she sometimes still secretly visits her old home. The Melancholy of Summer By Louisa Onom Cover Image The Melancholy of Summer (Hardcover). Sure, she's been alternating stays with her friends' families. Sure, her parents went on the run after they were accused of committing a crime, leaving her behind. After her parents go on the run, a teenage girl placed in the care of a cousin she barely knows learns to trust and open up in The Melancholy of Summer, a lyrical YA contemporary coming-of-age story by Louisa Onoméĭoesn't she see? I can do this on my own.

The Melancholy of Summer by Louisa Onomé