In the long hot summers of the 1950s, in the kingdom of inland seas that is Upper Canada, three girls share their adolescent secrets and dreams. The rules of contest are the only ones they know as they vie for one godlike boy. They are Shelly, vulnerable, childlike, boastful, possessive.... Bobby, flamboyant, generous, rebellious, queening it with her sexuality.... and Jude, the intellectual, who writes poetry and erotic fantasy and prays to Mrs...