the second summer of the sisterhood by ann brashares

She and her family return to Greece as well, only to find that Bapi has already passed away. Soon after that, Lena learns that her Bapi has had a stroke back in Santorini. They rekindle their romance, and then Kostos has to leave suddenly because of an emergency back home in Greece. Lena is shocked and incredibly happy when Kostos shows up in America to visit her for the summer. Halfway through the year, however, Lena stopped corresponding with Kostos because it was too painful to miss him all year.

She met Kostos last summer, while spending time in Santorini with her grandparents, and they fell in love. Lena recalls the year she spent sending letters back and forth to her long-distance Greek boyfriend, Kostos. Tibby enrolls in a film program on a college campus to get away, while the other girls make plans in Bethesda. While most of the girls have made a plan to stay at home in Maryland for the summer, Tibby has made it her mission to leave – she was the only girl to stay behind last year and had a challenging summer when she lost a new friend, Bailey, to cancer. As the novel opens, the girls are beginning their seventeenth summer together. The novel takes place at the girls' homes in Bethesda, Maryland, on the campus of Williamston College, and in South Carolina and Alabama. The main characters are the same – Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen. The book picks up in the seventeenth summer of the girls from the original novel, exactly one year after the first novel began. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares is the second novel in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. The 2001 book, the first in a beloved series, was adapted to film in 2005 with Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera and Alexis Bledel starring as the tight-knit friends. Throughout, Brashares flips between their perspectives and captures the ferocity with which friends can carry each other through the most challenging moments, even when they aren’t physically close. The girls mail the jeans to each other in their different locations, from South Carolina, where Carmen is visiting her estranged father, to Mexico, where Bridget is pining after a crush at soccer camp, to Greece, where Lena is discovering first love, and back home in Maryland, where Tibby is stuck working at the local drugstore. Sharing these pants becomes a lifeline for the friends as they navigate a significant summer-months that propel them from adolescence into adulthood, each in different ways.

Friends since birth, teenagers Lena, Tibby, Bridget and Carmen discover a unique way to stay connected while life takes them in new directions: by sharing a pair of second-hand jeans that miraculously fit them all.

The second summer of the sisterhood by ann brashares