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AsBad Summer Peopleauthor Emma Rosenblum can attest, rich people never age out of camp.
They just get summer homes.
Because camp kids know this truth: Come summer, the rules dont apply.
it’s possible for you to reinvent yourself.
you’ve got the option to do orbeanything.
That adage is still true well into adulthood for the privileged few who use summer as a verb.
Non-air-conditioned cabins become palatial beach houses.
Campfire smores turn into chardonnay happy hours.
And all-camp gossip turns into small-town drama.
Her characters engage in illicit affairs, fraudulent financial schemes, and so much high-stakes yet petty drama.
Oh yeah, and theres a murder.
(I dont know anyone whos having an affair!).
YetBad Summer Peoplestill exposes some of the universal truths of this not-so-universal experience.
Youre in this removed world altogether and you know each other specifically in that context.
It drives a lot of close bonding, Rosenblum tells Bustle.
Any kind of community where everybody is so close has these elements of drama.
Theres a kind of looseness.
Then outside of it, that doesnt necessarily mean thats who you are.
Careers dont exist or if they do, theyre in the periphery.
But, as Rosenblums characters and all campers know, therecanbe too much of a good thing.
source: www.bustle.com
