Grady's parents, a seventeen-year-old rich girl from New York, leave for a trip to Europe. Grady is courted by Peter, a young man from her social class, but she falls in love with Clyde, who comes from the working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, and experiences her own dizzying journey as love first and then despair transform her from a teenager into a woman.
One of Truman Capote's early works, "Summer Crossing," was discovered and published for the first time in the USA in 2006. It is a text that, with its mature writing, once again confirms the power and talent that established Capote as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.