Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody quite expects that he will turn up. They especially don't expect him to turn up as a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy. Fielding, the son of Autopsy, finds the boy outside the courthouse and brings him home, and he is welcomed into the Bliss family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway from a nearby farm town. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal -- and riled by the feverish heatwave baking the town from the inside out -- there are some around town who start to believe that maybe Sal is exactly who he claims to be. But whether he's a traumatised child or the devil incarnate, Sal is certainly one strange fruit: he talks in riddles, his uncanny knowledge and understanding reaches far outside the realm of a normal child -- and ultimately his eerily affecting stories of Heaven, Hell, and earth will mesmerise and enflame the entire town. Devastatingly beautiful, The Summer That Melted Everythingis a captivating story about community, redemption, and the dark places where evil really lies.
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The Summer That Melted Everything
von Tiffany McDaniel
Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody quite expects that he will turn up. They especially don't expect him to turn up as a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy. Fielding, the son of Autopsy, finds the boy outside the courthouse and brings him home, and he is welcomed into the Bliss family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway from a nearby farm town. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal -- and riled by the feverish heatwave baking the town from the inside out -- there are some around town who start to believe that maybe Sal is exactly who he claims to be. But whether he's a traumatised child or the devil incarnate, Sal is certainly one strange fruit: he talks in riddles, his uncanny knowledge and understanding reaches far outside the realm of a normal child -- and ultimately his eerily affecting stories of Heaven, Hell, and earth will mesmerise and enflame the entire town. Devastatingly beautiful, The Summer That Melted Everythingis a captivating story about community, redemption, and the dark places where evil really lies.
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Rezension von PrachiIf a book is going to stay with me long after I’ve finished reading it, it’s going to be this one. I didn’t expect it to move me the way it did. The lessons it offers are not new. They’re things I’ve heard before, things I already knew. But the way this story delivers them made all the difference. Reading it felt intimate and quietly devastating. I found myself crying, smiling, feeling angry and deeply sad at the characters as if they were personally affecting my life. And considering I don’t usually cry over scenes in books, that says a lot. My heart aches for Sal, for Grand, for Otis. Each of them carries a kind of loneliness and pain that feels painfully human, and the book never looks away from it. What struck me most was how the novel explores faith, cruelty, innocence, and love without preaching. It shows how fear can turn people monstrous, how kindness can exist in the smallest, most unexpected places, and how being different can be both dangerous and sacred. The writing is lyrical but sharp, tender yet unflinching, and it lingers in your chest long after the last page. Literary fiction might just be my favorite genre now, especially if it keeps giving me books like this.