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Overview
Keep in Touch is a companion piece to the author’s original book The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It contains letters, notes, and other items that were written by the characters during their friendship. Much of what happens in this book is vague and confusing because Brashares assumes that her readers are familiar with the original story.
Four friends, Carmen, Bridget, Tibby and Lena are going to be separated for the first time during their 16th summer. They buy a pair of jeans that fits them all perfectly despite their differences in size. While they’re apart, they write letters back and forth to each other about what’s happening in their lives over the course of this eventful summer.
The story of the girls’ friendship is told by including details about their childhoods, such as birthday parties and notes from school. Bridget loves sports; Lena loves art; Tibby has a very high IQ and is articulate; Carmen is a girly girl who’s deeply affected by her parents’ divorce.
Tibby’s notes reveal that she is unhappy about her life. She works at Wallman’s, a discount store, and babysits for money. Tibby meets Bailey, who is younger than her. They become friends until Bailey becomes ill and dies in the summer of 2003. However, it isn’t clear whether or not this actually happened.
Carmen is excited to spend the summer with her father in Charleston, South Carolina. However, she’s upset when he tells her that he’s getting married. She dislikes his fiancée and her children because it feels like they’re invading their time together. By the end of the book, she still hasn’t resolved these feelings about them.
Bridget’s summer begins well, but things go wrong because of her resentment towards her parents. She becomes interested in one of the coaches and there are hints that she has a sexual encounter with him. There are also signs that Bridget is experiencing some serious psychological problems, but the exact nature of these problems isn’t clear.
Lena had the best summer. She loved Greece and was happy to have so many beautiful places and objects to draw and paint. Lena also met a boy named Kostos, whom she fell in love with shortly before returning home.
The book ends with a section advising readers to keep in touch with friends through different forms of written communication, such as e-mail, instant messaging and handwritten letters.
Section 0 Summary (Introduction)
This book is a companion piece to Ann Brashares’ previous novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. In that story, four friends – Carmen, Bridget, Lena and Tibby – are apart for the first time in their lives when they’re forced to travel during their 16th summer. They use the pants as a way to stay in touch with one another by shipping them back and forth between each other throughout the summer.
The book’s introduction, which is narrated by Carmen, sets up the rest of the story. It tells how Bee has been going to soccer camp in Baja for years and Lena goes to Santorini every summer with her grandparents. This year Carmen goes to South Carolina because she wants to spend time with her father who lives there. Tibby stays home at Bethesda where she works at Wallman’s discount store and they stay in touch through letters that they write when they mail pants back and forth while making them into shorts.
Carmen says that the book also contains notes from earlier years, along with a chapter on how readers can stay in touch with their friends through notes and letters.
