It grabs your heart and won’t let go.” - Book Riot Her writing is lovely, her storytelling honest, and her characters frighteningly relatable. Summer Bird Blue is without a doubt one of the best books I’ve read this year. “Bowman beautiful captures the complexity of sisterhood and grief, depicting characters and relationships that aren’t simple or perfect, but flawed and authentic. Don’t miss this book (or any book) by Bowman.” - Paste Magazine “Summer Bird Blue boasts Bowman’s gorgeous prose and heartbreaking storytelling in a novel of music, family, love and death. “A lyrical novel about grief, love, and finding oneself again in the wake of a tremendous loss, Summer Bird Blue is a truly special novel.” - Bustle “A diverse, sensitive and hopeful portrayal of a teen simultaneously struggling with questions of personal identity and difficult external circumstances.” - BookPage The language is extraordinary.” - ★ School Library Journal, starred review “A stunning story filled with the healing power of friendship, family, and music. “A strikingly moving book about teenage grief.” - ★ Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Will leave readers breathless.” - ★ Booklist, starred review Published by Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster in 2018. With the help of the “boys next door”-a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn’t take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago-Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish.Īching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, Summer Bird Blue explores big truths about insurmountable grief, unconditional love, and how to forgive even when it feels impossible. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief.
But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of-she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn’t have the answers to everything. Three starred reviews for this stunning novel about a mixed race teen who struggles to find her way back to her love of music in the wake of her sister’s death, from the author of the William C.
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