"Reading the essays in TIE DYE TUESDAY is like reading Bateman's personal diary. She fuses her fears of adulthood with her own struggles as both a camp counselor and a college student. She captures the camper in all of us." - Rob Spadafore THE SILVER BIN At eighteen years old, Amanda Bateman applied to be a counselor at a Girl Scout camp in Western Pennsylvania. For the next four years, instead of looking for internships or working a part time job, she canoes, eats chicken fingers, and fights raccoons. Tie Dye Tuesday is a reflection of what those years as a counselor as well as what camping with her family has made her believe about family, friendship, and herself. It is a memoir of the summers between her four years in college and trying to grow up while being paid to act like a kid.