"The English word for summer comes from the Old English 'sumor', from the proto-Indo-European root 'sam', meaning both 'one' and 'together'," she writes. She shows them to be an interlocked collage, and does so with wit and warmth. She weaves together the crises of the world - not just the urgent, like the pandemic, but also the older, deeper crises of xenophobia, migration and climate change. Smith packs so much into Summer that it is a marvel it gets off the ground, but it does. Smith draws lines between this and Britain's present-day treatment of refugees.Īrt is considering giving up his blog, Art In Nature, given the pandemic, and renaming it Art Inertia. They are connected with characters from the quartet: centenarian Daniel Gluck from Autumn, and blogger Art and his ex-girlfriend Charlotte from Winter.ĭaniel's dementia returns him to his time in a British internment camp in World War II, his German father having been classified as an "enemy alien".
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