This book follows Alessandra Sanguinetti's return to rural Argentina to continue her intimate collaboration with Belinda and Guillermina, two cousins who, as children, were the subjects of the first book in her ongoing series, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams.
 
In this second volume, The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer, we follow Guillermina and Belinda from ages fourteen to twenty-four as they navigate the fluid territory between adolescence and young adulthood. Still surrounded by the animals and rural settings of their childhood, the book depicts the cousins' everyday lives as they experience young love, pregnancy and motherhood. Perhaps inevitably, these experiences bring growing independence from their families and from one another. We also sense a shift in Sanguinetti's relationship with the cousins and their shared work: from the insular collaborations of childhood to three women whose lives branch in different directions. Although the passage of time is one of the photographs' most palpable tensions, the book deepens Sanguinetti's exploration of the universal, timeless language of female intimacy and friendship.
 
MACK will publish an ongoing series of volumes in a similar format from The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, beginning with a reprint of the first book, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams, in early 2021.