title: Childhood mourning. An impossible desire in Lois Lowry's a Summer to Die.
abstract: In Lois Lowry's A Summer to Die, protagonist Meg Chalmers appears wiser than her thirteen years, able to handle such painful crises as her sister's death to leukemia, moving to a new town in the middle of a school year, and witnessing the birth of her neighbors' son with an ease and grace equal to the remarkably well-adjusted adults in her life. She also appears to have better sense than some of the not-so-well-adjusted adults who threaten to disrupt her world, such as Clarice Callaway (the town busybody) and Martin Huntington (the-opportunistic lawyer) and even at times her adult friends and neighbors Will, Ben, and Maria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, USA. amh2194@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Aerin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hyun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001601:Bereavement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology*