Excerpt: The Last Summer (of You & Me) by Ann Brashares

Beach read alert: Ann Brashares, the author of all those books featuring traveling pants, pens her first novel intended for adults. From the press bumph:

Ann Brashares has won millions of fans with her blockbuster series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in which she so powerfully captured the emotional complexities of female friendship and young love. With The Last Summer (of You and Me), she moves on to introduce a new set of characters and adult relationships just as true, endearing and unforgettable.

January has the excerpt.