The Summer Before Author:Patricia Windsor Bradley is dead. He was Sandy's best friend. This is the story of how she comes to accept his death. She tries desperately to relate to parents who don't understand her, to a pdychiatrist who is wise but remote, to a girl friend who is more curious than kind. She writes beautiful, poetic words in her journal that express the terrors and the ... more »enchantments of her lonely, nightmare world.« less