In her first historic novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a country and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again proves her title as queen of the summer novel. REVIEWS: Summer of 69 : NPR The NY Times Goodreads Book Companion The 1 New York Times Bestseller. As the summer heats up, Teddy Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie experiences some sinking and flying herself, as she grows into her own body and mind. This novel begins on a steamy summer night, when the students of Nantucket High. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother who is hiding some secrets of her own. Hilderbrand delivered yet another hit in 2012 with Summerland, a gripping story about rising above the ashes. Only son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Middle sister Kirby, a nursing student, is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests, a passion which takes her to Martha's Vineyard with her best friend, Mary Jo Kopechne. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket: but this year Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and Nantucket, an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again. Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand back in time and join a Nantucket family as they experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a 1960s summer. Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel.

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