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Wisteria Grove, Book One: Those Summer Days
Paperback
Series: Wisteria Grove, Book 1
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Chandra Martin
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When nine-year-old Renate Vale is sent to spend the summer with her grandparents in Wisteria Grove, Georgia, she expects long days of play with her cousins, quiet mornings in the country, and a break from the routines at home. Instead, that summer becomes the first fracture in her childhood - the moment when she begins to understand that the world is not as safe, simple, or kind as she hoped.
Living under Henry and Evelyn Moreau's roof, surrounded by three older boy cousins, Renate is pulled into a season of confusion, fear, and awakening. Strange moments follow her, memories flicker at the edges of her mind, and the adults around her twist truth into something sharp enough to wound. As the heat settles over Wisteria Grove, Renate starts to sense a quiet, uncanny force moving beneath the ordinary life of the town - something that sees her, hears her, and refuses to let her stay small.
Those Summer Days is the beginning of Renate's story: tender, unsettling, and unflinchingly honest. A Southern Gothic coming-of-age about trauma, resilience, and the first spark of a voice long denied.
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