Bummer Camp

A Novel

by Ann Garvin

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Pub Date 1 Sep 2024 | Archive Date 15 Sep 2024

Lake Union Publishing

General Fiction (Adult) | Women's Fiction

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Description

Two sisters scramble to save their family’s legacy in a funny, huge-hearted novel about grandiose plans and summers to remember by the author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.

Cat McCarthy has spent years extricating herself from the family business—an increasingly run-down theater camp—and all the drama contained within it. At thirty-seven, she’s putting the final touches on a new life as she renovates her dream cottage and awaits her first child. Does it worry her that the McCarthy legacy is in the hands of her disastrously irresponsible sister, Ginger? Sure. But the camp’s not Cat’s problem anymore.

Then a series of frantic text messages pulls Cat back to center stage. Ginger has handed the reins to a crackpot motivational speaker, Bob Durand, and his scheming wife, Elaine. The couple’s plan to rebrand the camp as a “rehab” for anxious adults has nearly bankrupted the McCarthys. And now the Durands have skipped town days before investors arrive for a fundraising gala that could determine the camp’s future.

As Cat and Ginger wrangle a cast of lovable misfits and underdogs to save the camp, the sisters rediscover the importance of family, belonging, and holding fast to sweet summer memories.

Two sisters scramble to save their family’s legacy in a funny, huge-hearted novel about grandiose plans and summers to remember by the author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.

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A Note From the Publisher

Ann Garvin, PhD, is the USA Today bestselling author of There’s No Coming Back from This, I Thought You Said This Would Work, I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around, and other funny and sad novels about people who do too much, in a world that asks too much from them. Ann teaches in the low-residency master of fine arts program at Drexel University and lives in Wisconsin with her anxious and overly protective dog, Peanut. She is the founder of the Tall Poppy Writers and is dedicated to helping authors find readers and vice versa. For more information, visit www.anngarvin.com.

Advance Praise

Praise for Bummer Camp

“Ann Garvin’s Bummer Camp is for anyone who’s ever spent any time in a cabin or making lanyards or being bitten by mosquitoes while walking in a piney woods. It’s the funny, insightful story of two sisters who must band together to save their family’s legacy, a summer camp in danger of being dismantled by the bad guys. Garvin’s trademark humor and insight shine through every page, in all the quirky characters. Don’t miss it. You’ll laugh out loud.” —Maddie Dawson, Washington Post bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners

“After finishing Bummer Camp, I see why Ann Garvin is so beloved. Ann is a fabulous storyteller, a master writer, and just plain very funny.” —Bob Eckstein, New York Times bestselling author of Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums

“Bummer Camp is a perfectly balanced cocktail of family annoyance, sharky business foes, and just enough pot brownies to keep the whole thing afloat.” —Michelle Wildgen, author of Wine People

“You’ve got a friend in Ann Garvin, a writer with immense empathy, heart, and smarts. Bummer Camp is a hilarious, whip-smart, and wise valentine to the weirdo and outsider in all of us. A delightful novel.” —Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Godspeed

Praise for Bummer Camp

“Ann Garvin’s Bummer Camp is for anyone who’s ever spent any time in a cabin or making lanyards or being bitten by mosquitoes while walking in a piney woods. It’s the funny...