The Guest Book

Instant New York Times Bestseller ΓÇ£The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe Washington Post The thought-provoking new novel by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Blake A lifetime of secrets. A history untold. No. It is a simple word,uttered on a summer porch in 1936. And it will haunt Kitty Milton for the rest of her life. Kitty and her husbandOgdenare both from families considered the backbone of the country. But this refusal will come to be KittyΓÇÖs defining momentand its consequences will ripple through the Milton family for generations. For while they summer on their island in Maineanchored as they are to the way things have always beenthe winds of change are beginning to stir. In 1959 New York Citytwo strangers enter the MiltonsΓÇÖ circle. One captures the attention of KittyΓÇÖs daughterwhile the other makes each of them question what the family stands for. This new generation insists the times are changing. And in one nighteverything does. So much so that in the present daythe third generation of Miltons doesnΓÇÖt have enough money to keep the island in Maine. Evie MiltonΓÇÖs mother has just diedand as Evie digs into her motherΓÇÖs and grandparentsΓÇÖ historywhat she finds is a story as unsettling as it is inescapablethe story that threatens the foundation of the Milton family myth. Moving through three generations and back and forth in timeThe Guest Book asks how we remember and what we choose to forget. It shows the untold secrets we inherit and pass onunknowingly echoing our parents and grandparents. Sarah BlakeΓÇÖs triumphant novel tells the story of a family and a country that buries its past in quietuntil the present calls forth a reckoning.