A lovely, gritty book about the coming of age of the narrator. King did a great job emersing us in the setting so you could almost hear and feel the hot summer days the story takes place across. Sometimes the characters' actions seem too old for our thirteen year old protagonists but it's about a time and boyhood I did not experience growing up so I give it a pass. The resolution of the titular body was a little disappoint but fit the themes well.

I really loved the part where we got treated to the narrator's own writing; seeing how his experiences that summer reflected in his college writing and then judged by his current self was an interesting extra level to the story.