Two Summers, One Shared Dream

About This Book

Lina has always pictured the city as bright lights, crowded sidewalks and endless inspiration. Her cousin Marco pictures her orchard town as slow afternoons and familiar faces. So for one summer they trade places — Lina to a city art workshop where every other student seems to paint louder than she does, Marco to the orchards, where the signal crawls and the days ask him to slow down. They swap a folded map and a key on orange string, and each of them arrives with a list of expectations the real place refuses to match. Then the orchard's beloved festival begins slipping away for lack of hands, on the very weekend the city offers Lina a showcase of her own.