Rita Williams- Garcia, the author of One Crazy Summer, Cecile the woman who abandoned her daughters. First the setting is Brooklyn because the daughters and the dad live there. The main characters in One crazy summer are Cecile, the mom, Vonetta, the middle sister, Fern, the younger sister and. Ceclie, the girls mom abandoned them leaving them with their dad and she went to California. I kind of don’t like the book’s style because the chapters are too long and is just like a normal book, there’s no questions because good parts happen. This is my favorite quote of the entire book because is really funny “Cecile Johnson-mammal birth giver, alive, an abandoner-is our mother”