Breakfast Served Anytime is the perfect mixture of anticipation and satisfaction. Gloria departs for Geek Camp thinking she’s in love with her best friend’s brother, but rather than focusing on budding romances, the book examines the friendships that change her summer. Sarah Combs’ novel is full of sagely advice from Gloria’s single-father and grapples with her anxiety, as senior year looms large. Gloria worries that her love of theatre is wearing thin and will disrupt all of the plans she has made for her future. When she signs up for the summer course “Mysteries of the Written Word,” Gloria is not sure what to expect and, when her class meets for the first time, she is quick to judge her companions. She discovers, however, that her peers have an even greater impact on her emotions and beliefs than she first believed.

Combs’ novel is a wonderful collection of easy friendships, strong bonds, and a refreshing look at overcoming differences and stress to really enjoy the present moment while it is in front of you. Combs’ presents minority characters without harping on their identities and instead focuses on the complex and fruitful friendships that spring up between the Geek Campers. Breakfast Served Anytime is a moving glimpse into the life of teenagers and the tension that is mounted upon them in their last years of high school.

© 2015 Catia Cunha

Catia Cunha has a BA in Theater Arts and English from Mount Holyokc College. She won Young Playwrights Inc.’s 2013 National Playwriting Competition where her short play “Legs” was presented as a staged reading at the Lucille Lortel Theatre at the culmination of the Conference. In the spring of 2013 she produced and acted in her first full-length play, ____space, which was presented at Mount Holyoke. Catia’s senior project, Disinsemination, a play about feminist lesbians and aliens, was presented as a staged reading at Smith College and Mount Holyoke in Fall 2013. Mount Holyoke’s Rooke Theatre produced it in March 2014. In October 2014 Catia participated in the Grex Group’s Insomniacs 24-hour play festival. She is currently working on a play about sea monsters in the subway.