Nadine Perfect will have to navigate her first summer at camp in Bath, Missouri, while dealing with the recent loss of her mother, the turbulent friendships of teenage girls, and the advances of boys. She will have to decide whether her new bunkmate, Evinrude Lately Humble Hatfield, is her greatest adversary or confidante. She will need a dictionary to trust the words of Cain and Mabel Cross who have elevated twin-speak to an overeducated form of gibberish, and she will have to stand up for her squirrel-like friend, Lucky Lorillard.
Who will win her heart, the dark and brooding Matt McCool or the sincere and affectionate Van Dyke? Nadine Perfect will learn that moving on requires her to let go of more than weight, and being happy again is not a betrayal of her mother’s memory.
Jane Austen’s Fat Camp or (for the More Pretentious Reader) Vicissitudes is a summer camp comedy of manners. In a modern day world where the manners and language of Austen’s novels have survived and inform polite society, it is not how many British pounds a year you earn that elevates your status, but rather, how many pounds you lose.
Who will win her heart, the dark and brooding Matt McCool or the sincere and affectionate Van Dyke? Nadine Perfect will learn that moving on requires her to let go of more than weight, and being happy again is not a betrayal of her mother’s memory.
Jane Austen’s Fat Camp or (for the More Pretentious Reader) Vicissitudes is a summer camp comedy of manners. In a modern day world where the manners and language of Austen’s novels have survived and inform polite society, it is not how many British pounds a year you earn that elevates your status, but rather, how many pounds you lose.
