Long Summer

Mark T. Waynes The Long Summer

is heartfelt adventure story of a fourteen-year-old boy, Cody, entering an awkward age and just beginning to have difficulties relating and communicating with his father.

When Cody finds himself lost in the rain forest along Canada's southwestern shoreline, he is saved by a creature not just of another culture but of an entirely different species, a creature of same relative age, having the same problems with his father.

It is not until Cody understands the relationship between his savior and his savior's father that he understands his own relationship with his father.