The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

🌿🏝️🌞Only farmers and summer guests walk on the moss🌞🏝️🌿Channeling the recent heatwave, this month the girlies are exploring Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel ‘The Summer Book’.6 year old Sofia spends her summer on a small Finnish island with her dad and her grandma, and the summer is endless. Through little slice of life vignettes, the book details island life and the relationship between Sofia and her grandma. Both sharing the same warmth, curiosity, and stubbornness, the two are very similar. Jansson presents us with life lessons, lamentations on death, silly arguments, and the beauty of nature.Join us to discuss the agency of older women, nature writing, the joy in ageing, and our perfect summers. This week we are joined by Mia, cohost of the seedling podcast! 🌱Follow us on instagram at weirdgirlbookclub_pod for book recs and to stay up to date with episodes! XxAnd check out the Seedling podcast!