A review by sbufkin
The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro

2.0

This showed up on a list of fun beach reads and something about the description pulled me in. I was initially taken with it, but the whole thing descended into absurd melodrama. That's bad enough, but the unforgivable part for me is the way the novel treated the black characters, using their experiences for sensation value without adequately presenting their interiority.