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Aaron Kreuter finds new possibilities in summer camp
You can live these two different lives: your home life with your parents and school and the city—and then camp ... The fact that you can live these two separate lives means different worlds are possible, and we have a say in how we build the society we live in.
Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with poet and novelist Aaron Kreuter. His new book is Lake Burntshore, which tells the story of the summer of 2013 at a Canadian Jewish summer camp that’s just fired several camp counsellors after they're caught smoking (then-very-illegal) marijuana. The enterprising son of the camp's owner springs into action and comes up with a surprising solution to their sudden staffing needs: a group of charming and very young Israeli soldiers.
Lake Burntshore
It’s the summer of 2013 and 21-year-old Ruby, a counselor at Camp Burntshore, can’t wait to supervise a rowdy cabin of 11-year-olds, smoke weed by the fire, and argue about which city makes the best bagels. But when Brent, the son of the camp’s owner, hires Israeli soldiers to fill a staffing shortfall, Ruby, a committed anti-Zionist, must decide if she’s willing to jeopardize her place at Burntshore to fight Brent—even as she finds herself falling in love with one of the soldiers, the sweetly handsome Etai.
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