Summer '09

This book tells two stories.

It parallels the journey of two boys learning about themselves, with the story of two men learning about each other.

It's 2008 and Jung Hoseok is beginning high school. With his best friend Min Yoongi, they meet sophomore Kim Namjoon and his group of grungy, skater friends. The group quickly forms a close knit bond, spending their youth together. Hoseok and Namjoon's friendship becomes blurred with feelings of unrequited young love.

Now it's summer 2023. After nearly a decade apart and years of missed calls, and then no calls, Hoseok and Namjoon are unexpectedly thrown back together. As they reminisce on their youth in the town where it all started, old and unconfessed feelings begin to surface.