A review by grayola
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

4.0

This story reads like a beach trip feels. Relaxed, while at the same time not without petty and not so petty drama interwoven between endless days. The summer in question could really be any summer that Rose and her family spend at Awago Beach. If you visit any place annually or otherwise frequently, you know the checkpoint that each visit serves as over the course of your life or childhood. But even when the story is concerned with how places define and shape us, it acknowledges the new stories that unfold as we consider how these places and memories mold our constantly changing associations with space.