Book Review: Summer of Naked Swim Parties

Fourteen year old Jamie is growing up in the summer of '76, but this isn't your typical coming-of-age story. Jamie's parents are hippies, and they are the ones throwing the naked swim parties. Which is so not cool when you're 14! There are hilarious conversations between Jamie and her free-spirited parents. Jamie often finds herself in the parent role, asking to have a curfew, or begging her mother to put clothes on. It's interesting to watch Jamie struggle with freedom and getting to know herself, when she has no parameters to hold her back. Instead of indulging in sex and drugs like her parents, Jamie is constantly worried about something bad happening, and has little interest in rebelling.

This is a perfect summer read, as Jamie spends her summer in her pool, at the beach, finding her first love, and finding the meaning of friendship and family.