Summer and the City

Seventeen-year-old Carrie Bradshaw moves to New York City for the summer before her freshman year at Brown, where she enrolls in a writing class and begins navigating romance, friendship, and ambition in Manhattan. Her adventures bring her into orbit with Samantha Jones, a bold fashionista who becomes one of her closest friends, and Miranda Hobbes, an opinionated law student.

Set against the backdrop of 1980s New York, the novel follows Carrie's coming-of-age as she grapples with a whirlwind romance with an older man while discovering what it means to find her voice in the city.