Jay respects Eric's life of adventure, but Garnet likes him for his kindness and pluck.Īs Eric becomes integral in the life of the farm and the Lindens, a rift begins to form between Jay and Garnet, who previously were best friends. The 13-year-old is soon adopted by the Lindens, and his wide work knowledge soon make him a favorite of Jay, Mr. The boy is named Eric Swanstrom, an orphan of Swedish parentage who's traveled the United States working and surviving for a whole year all by himself. Linden is making lime to be used in mixing cement. Freebody are resting from working the lime kiln where Mr. One of the most central stories occurs in the chapter named "The Stranger." A half-starved boy stumbles into a makeshift camp where Garnet, Jay, their father, and family friend Mr. The often-mentioned story of Timmy the pig, a runt that Garnet raises to New Conniston Fair blue ribbon-winning girth, is just one among many such episodes. Instead of a single, uninterrupted story, Enright chronicles Garnet's summer episodically, loosely linking each story to the next but not following one narrative plotline. Nine-year-old Garnet runs away from home, gets locked in a library all night with her friend Citronella, does chores, and runs away from home. Elizabeth Enright's Linden family lives on a farm (presumably somewhere in the midwest), goes to town rarely, and attends the local fair to eat food, ride the Ferris wheel, and show livestock. This little novel is an idyll of rural American childhood.
Rain comes, enough money for a new barn comes, and a new boy named Eric comes, all of them proof (at least to Garnet) that the little thimble is magic and a bearer of good things. Then she finds a silver thimble while swimming with her older brother Jay, and things quickly begin to change. Garnet Linden's Thimble Summerbegins in the throes of a summer drought.
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