Summer av Ali Smith

"Apparently her mother said it, and her mother's mother said it. I think that makes swifts a bit like a flying message in the bottle. There's a poem by the poet Emily Dickinson that I like. It says (thought it says it more poetically than I am here) what would happen if you split a lark open? Ihave a vision that if you were to open a swift, metaphorically of course, the rolled-up message they carry inside them is the 
unfurled word
    SUMMER" (sid 119)

Summer (2020) av Ali Smith är sista delen av hennes årstidsböcker.
The Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers.

   "What's in the paper today, then? she says.
    Thugs and showmen in power, he says. Nothing new. A clever virus. That's news. The stocks and shares will shake. There'll be people who do very well out of that. One more time we'll find out what's word more, people or money.
    He thinks of his mother's face. All her family money went in the hyper." (sid 160)

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