"WITH SWANNA IN LOVE, JENNIFER BELLE HAS GIVEN US THE OTHER SIDE OF NABOKOV'S LOLITA - THE MISUNDERSTOOD TEENAGE TEMPTRESS WHO DESPERATELY WANTS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH AND A COMFORTABLE BED TO SLEEP IN," — Marcy Dermansky, author of Hurricane Girl 🦢☀️🍦 It’s the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late—stoned and radiant—in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont—to an artist colony where kids are not welcome and they are forced to sleep in the back of the truck, while Val is cozy inside the house with the Russian. Then Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling alley, and, knowing a thing or two about seduction from Judy Blume, her best friend at camp, and h...