Summer of ’69

Four siblings experience the drama,intrigueand upheaval of the ’60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand’s #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It’s 1969and for the Levin familythe 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 Americanothing is the same: Blairthe oldest sisteris marooned in Bostonpregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirbycaught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independenttakes a summer job on Martha’s Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldierrecently deployed to Vietnam. And thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only childmarooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried motherwhile each of them hides a troubling secret. As the summer heats upTed Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddickman flies to the moonand Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novelrich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to seaElin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel.