Coyote Summer by Laura Koerber – Review by Tausha Treadway

Coyote Summer by Laura Koerber
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Coyote Summer by Laura Koerber. This book is very emotional and could have some emotional impact on some. Its the story of Ben who is a very wealthy family so he attends a very wealthy private school where you are meant to become a very wealthy successful adult. During the summer after graduation he attends a party where everyone is drinking and doing drugs. Ben is very insecure so he falls right in line with all the partying. He meets a girl named Claire and talks to her most of the evening when he goes to find her to ask her a question he finds her passed out on the bed with several of his friends raping her. He locks the door and flees which ends up haunting him still 40 years later. Finding out that Claire has never married makes him feel even worse. Could he have changed that by helping her that night. Where his friends really that shallow and horrible that they think they could treat people anyway they want? Sometimes privilege is not all its cracked up to be. Even though he wasn’t the one who attacked Claire he is still reeling from that night. Wonderful coming of age story but could have triggers.

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