At first, Carmen tries to start her own romance with a classmate, but she is ultimately too distracted by her mom to follow through. Carmen begins to worry that her mother is leaving her behind for David. Christina has recently become involved in a relationship with David, and it is getting more serious than Carmen wants to admit. Christina raises Carmen alone, after divorcing Carmen's father a few years before. Meanwhile, Carmen is staying at home with her mom, Christina. She is mournful until she meets Carmen's stepbrother, Paul, whom she takes a liking to almost immediately. Lena returns to the States, heartbroken and grieving. Kostos married the girl out of honor, though he doesn't love her. They had a brief fling while Kostos and Lena weren't together, and the girl became pregnant. Devastated, Lena's pain only worsens when she learns that Kostos has married a local girl. She and her family return to Greece as well, only to find that Bapi has already passed away. Soon after that, Lena learns that her Bapi has had a stroke back in Santorini. They rekindle their romance, and then Kostos has to leave suddenly because of an emergency back home in Greece. Lena is shocked and incredibly happy when Kostos shows up in America to visit her for the summer. Halfway through the year, however, Lena stopped corresponding with Kostos because it was too painful to miss him all year. She met Kostos last summer, while spending time in Santorini with her grandparents, and they fell in love. Lena recalls the year she spent sending letters back and forth to her long-distance Greek boyfriend, Kostos.
Tibby enrolls in a film program on a college campus to get away, while the other girls make plans in Bethesda.
While most of the girls have made a plan to stay at home in Maryland for the summer, Tibby has made it her mission to leave – she was the only girl to stay behind last year and had a challenging summer when she lost a new friend, Bailey, to cancer. As the novel opens, the girls are beginning their seventeenth summer together. The novel takes place at the girls' homes in Bethesda, Maryland, on the campus of Williamston College, and in South Carolina and Alabama. The main characters are the same – Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen. The book picks up in the seventeenth summer of the girls from the original novel, exactly one year after the first novel began. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares is the second novel in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.
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