Summer must be earned

In South Royalton, Vt.

— Photo by Nathan Siemers

“She came from people who thought they were too good to run from the cold, too hearty, too real. Fern allowed herself only short dreams of summer, properly earned summer, after winter and after spring.”

― From Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, by Ramona Ausubel, a novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and ‘70s that suddenly loses its fortune.