"Gut-wrenching, funny, and fierce." -The New York Times Book Review
"Gut-wrenching, funny, and fierce." -The New York Times Book Review
Set in the sun-scorched suburbs of late 1980's Southern California, Every Other Weekend follows an imaginative eight-year-old girl whose out-sized anxieties amplify when her family fractures and reforms, and whose creeping premonition that something terrible will happen comes true in the most tragic and unexpected way.
Named a selection for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Read the full NY Times Review here.
Editorial Reviews
"Zulema Renee Summerfield is among the best new writers I've read in a long, long time. In EVERY OTHER WEEKEND, she tells the truth, but with a beautiful slant, and any reader who comes in contact with this novel will be better for its singular vision."-Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here?
"You are about to meet your new favorite author. Zulema Renee Summerfield knows just where the fault lines lie in homes and hearts and families and in EVERY OTHER WEEKEND she leads us to those with a magical compassion. Summerfield's voice is hilarious and scathing and healing. We find ourselves here, inhabitable. In EVERY OTHER WEEKEND, Summerfield brings us home."
-Tupelo Hassman, author of Girlchild
"EVERY OTHER WEEKEND is a sensitive, funny, pitch-perfect tribute to the 80s and that era's loss of innocence, one that speaks with wisdom to the tender complexities of families spliced together in the wake of divorce. By the end of Zulema Renee Summerfield's accomplished debut, every character felt like family—or perhaps they just reminded me of my own."
-Julie Buntin, author of Marlena
"Let this smart, sparkling debut take you back to the '80s and the land of broken homes... A fascinating look at what being a family is really all about."
-Nylon
"You are about to meet your new favorite author. Zulema Renee Summerfield knows just where the fault lines lie in homes and hearts and families and in EVERY OTHER WEEKEND she leads us to those with a magical compassion. Summerfield's voice is hilarious and scathing and healing. We find ourselves here, inhabitable. In EVERY OTHER WEEKEND, Summerfield brings us home."
-Tupelo Hassman, author of Girlchild
"EVERY OTHER WEEKEND is a sensitive, funny, pitch-perfect tribute to the 80s and that era's loss of innocence, one that speaks with wisdom to the tender complexities of families spliced together in the wake of divorce. By the end of Zulema Renee Summerfield's accomplished debut, every character felt like family—or perhaps they just reminded me of my own."
-Julie Buntin, author of Marlena
"Let this smart, sparkling debut take you back to the '80s and the land of broken homes... A fascinating look at what being a family is really all about."
-Nylon