A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick A debut novel about an imaginative girl in the year following her parents’ divorce,and what happens when her creeping premonition that something terrible will happen comes true in the most unexpected of ways. The year is 1988and America is full of broken homes. EVERY OTHER WEEKEND drops us into the sun-scorched suburbs of southern Californiaamid Bret Michaels mania and Cold War hysteriawith Nennya wildly precociousnervous nelly of an eight-year-oldas our guide to the newly rearranged life she finds herself leading after her parents split. Nenny and her mother and two brothers have just moved in with her new stepfather and his two kids. Her old life replaced by this new configurationNenny’s natural anxieties intensifyand both real and imagined dangers entwine: earthquakes and home invasionsghosts of her stepfather’s days in VietnamGorbachev knocking down the door of her third grade class and recruiting them all into the Red Army. Knock-kneed and a little stormy-eyedshe is far too small for the thoughts that haunt heryet her fears are not entirely unfounded. Indeedtragedy does comebut it comes at her sidewaysin a way she never had imagined. With an irresistible voiceSummerfield has managed to tap the very truth of what it is to have been a child of her generationbottle itand serve it up in devastatinghilariousheartfelt doses. EVERY OTHER WEEKEND beautifully and unsettlingly captures the terrible wisdom that children often possessas well as the surprising ways in which families fracture and reform.