Banana Slicker

Picturesque suburbia in warm Georgia harvest town, Blueberry Park, Newbury. Home to blooming adolescents, Quinn Delaney and friends, for a summer belonging to the local reservoir, mom and pop shop, and neighborhood barbeques spent yearning and coming to terms with one’s identity. At least, it should’ve been. A usual summer of fumbling teenagers and mind melting heat is interrupted by the terrorizing of the Newbury Police Department Lieutenant’s over- aged sons. Their harassment is targeted, Quinn and friends constant victims of pulled bathing suit strings, public groping’s, and derogatory confrontations. Their ’ Summer of Fun ´ hits its crescendo on the 4th of July celebration at Peach Tree Creek Reservoir after a public altercation between Quinn and one of the Brothers Loomis puts her in the spotlight as enemy number 1. When one of the lieutenant’s sons turns up in a grisly car accident on the 5th of July, all eyes point to Quinn and associates, dredging up every bit of dirty laundry she’s had over the summer, every fight, ever pulled bathing suit, and every bloody nose. With the knives at her throat, Quinn has to navigate the tidal wave of loss a year after her father’s passing, the feelings developing for a certain girl she’s only gotten closer with over the summer, and everything that’s ever happened between her and the Brothers Loomis all before senior year. Content warning contains language, mature themes, graphic imagery, implied homophobia, racial slurs/biases, anti semitic slurs/ biases, pedophilic/predatory themes, depictions of sexual harassment and assault, gore and blood. —- ISBN: 9798328968836