![]() ![]() ![]() “Loving someone and being imperfectly able to understand them is hard,” Condie said. The 249-page book also includes themes of dealing with a personal loss and unexpectedly finding a friend. The festival, along with the southern Utah town of Cedar City, are the inspiration for the setting and some of the events in her new middle grade novel, “ Summerlost” (Dutton Children's Books, $17.99, ages 10 and up), which is scheduled to be released March 29. She worked there in the gift shop after high school and between semesters in college. “As a kid, it was a window to another world,” she said of the festival. Condie remembers riding her bike there and going to the Greenshow, a free 30-minute show at the festival. Her grandmother was an usher and would wear a period gown and have flowers in her hair, she said. Utah author Ally Condie remembers visiting the Utah Shakespeare Festival as a child and thinking it was “an absolutely magical place.” ![]()
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