![]() ![]() ![]() It’s safe to say that Avery and Bett are two very different people, in fact to begin with the only things they have in common is being 12 year old girls both being raised by single, gay dads. ![]() That said as I got further into the book and the girls got to know one another a little better the emails really started to show their characters and their relationship with one another and you really got a feel for how they felt about their situation and the events that unfold over the course of the book. The story is told solely through emails between Avery, Bett and a few family members, the negative side to this, which is only a minor one, was that it took me a little while to connect with the characters, I think that was probably because there was no additional narration. To Night Owl From Dogfish follows their relationship over the course of the summer and beyond through a series of emails back and forth.įor me the structure of the book was both a positive and a negative. The problem with this plan? The girls are complete opposites and have no intention of becoming friends. One day out of the blue Avery Bloom receives an email from Bett Devlin informing her that their dads met at a convention and are planning on sending the girls to the same sleepaway camp so they can get to know one another and hopefully become friends. Now that they can’t imagine life without each other, will the two girls (who sometimes call themselves Night Owl and Dogfish) figure out a way to be a family? Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends–and possibly, one day, even sisters.īut things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads. Bett Devlin, who’s fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Īvery Bloom, who’s bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. ![]()
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