![]() ![]() If that book was about one night of adolescent madness played out against a backdrop of family and friends, summer camp is the logical next chapter-the one or two golden months a year in which young Americans escaped the smothering embrace of home to travel far away from everything that was familiar. ![]() But underneath, it is nothing less than the story of our generation and how we got to be this way, picking up where our first book, Bar Mitzvah Disco, left off. On the surface, this is the tale of the great American institution of sleepaway camp, a parallel universe filled with bunk mates, unrequited crushes, appropriated Native American terminology, competitive sports, libido-soaked socials, panty raids, and snugly fitted velour shorts topped off with tube socks. This book is about summer camp in the same way Plato's Cave is about prisoners in chains, or "Hungry Like the Wolf" is about the animal kingdom. ![]()
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