5/30/2023 The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants/The Second Summer of t... by Ann BrasharesRead Now![]() ![]() Each girl's story is distinct and engrossing, told in a brightly contemporary style. Lena finds her identity in Greece and the courage not to reject love Bridget gets in over her head with an older camp coach Carmen finds her father ensconced with a new fiancée and family and Tibby unwillingly takes on a filmmaking apprentice who is dying of leukemia. Over the summer the Pants come to represent the support of the sisterhood, but they also lead each girl into bruising and ultimately healing confrontations with love and courage, dying and forgiveness. Beautiful, distant Lena is going to Greece to be with her grandparents strong, athletic Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baja, California hot-tempered Carmen plans to have her divorced father all to herself in South Carolina and Tibby the rebel will be left at home to slave for minimum wage at Wallman's. „These are magical Pants!” they realize, and so they make a pact to share them equally, to mail them back and forth over the summer from wherever they are. Yet the pants settle on each girl's hips perfectly, making her look sexy and long-legged and feel confident as a teenager can feel. ![]() ![]() They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on-four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to mention backgrounds and personalities. ![]()
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