Thrash's remembrances are evinced with clear, wide-eyed illustrations colored with a dreamily vibrant palette. Thrash perfectly captures all the feelings of an adolescent first love: the insecurities, the awkwardness, and self-doubts along with the soaring, intense highs of proximity. Rumors thrum throughout the camp about girls who are whispered to be lesbians, leading to their eventual ostracism Maggie, though honest with both herself and a confidante, tries to avoid her own social exile. Her summer is filled with the usual camp melodrama, although along with the everyday banalities, Maggie must try to hide what she's feeling toward Erin. She meets Erin, a 19-year-old counselor who studies astronomy and plays guitar. The summer that she turns 15, however, she falls in love for the first time. Thrash chronicles one monumental summer at an all-girls' camp where she experienced her gut-wrenching first love.Įvery summer, Maggie, an Atlanta native, attends Camp Bellflower, an all-girls' camp in Kentucky, complete with tents, shooting, and Civil War re-enactments that have been a camp tradition for nearly 100 years.
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