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Summer has a distinct texture in our memories. It’s the sting of hot concrete on bare feet, the sharp smell of chlorine mixed with sunscreen, and the specific, reckless joy of being a kid with nowhere to be and an entire neighborhood to explore. It’s this incredibly specific, universally felt nostalgia that makes Lisa Jenkins’ debut novel, You Going to the Pool Tomorrow?, a literary time capsule that will resonate with anyone who ever spent a summer being truly, gloriously young.