Summer of '69

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hilderbrand, Elin, Fiction / Hilderbrand, Elin
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	Due 05-14-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hilderbrand, Elin	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024

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. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel.

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Not my favorite submitted by selujules on July 29, 2019, 6:30pm I LOVE myself some Elin Hilderbrand, but this one was just not my favorite. The plot wasn't very plot-like to me; it was more like a well-researched(ish) trip down memory lane.

Nice premise and point of view from characters submitted by Brownize on July 19, 2020, 4:20pm Very good details, gave a nice feel for era. Tying it into real history was strange (Bobby Kennedy) in the end but still enjoyable read.

Elin does it again submitted by mandevil on September 7, 2020, 1:58pm I only wish she had said a little more about chappaquidic . Interesting story, great characters