About the book: 2023 / The new novel by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millais begins as a coming-of-age story that quickly turns into a thriller, smoothly turning into a dystopia with many allusions to the Bible and famous works of literature (it will be difficult to resist comparisons with “Lord of the Flies”). Twelve children are forced to vacation with their parents in a mansion on the shore of a lake. In the society of adults, Sodom and Gomorrah reign, and forgotten children watch them with contempt - they even came up with a game in which the main rule is not to reveal who your parents are. When a devastating storm hits the coast, the adults prove themselves time and again to fail, and the children are forced to take on the responsibility of survival. The Last Summer is a prophetic, heartbreaking story about growing up and the inevitable generational divide..