The summer of 69 book5/13/2023 Many plot elements are specific to the year. (Don’t tell Nonny!) Blair is married and pregnant her MIT astrophysicist husband, Angus, is depressive, controlling, and deceitful-the unmelodramatic way Angus’ faults sneak up on both Blair and the reader is only one example of Hilderbrand’s firm grasp on real life. Kirby has been arrested twice while protesting the war in Boston. Tiger has been drafted and sends dispatches to Jessie from Vietnam. Second husband David Levin is the father of Jessie, who’s just turned 13. Kate’s three older children, Blair, 24, Kirby, 20, and Tiger, 19, are products of her first marriage, to Wilder Foley, a war veteran, who shot himself. Exalta’s Nantucket house, All’s Fair, also appropriately named, is the main setting. Here, that family is the “stitched together” Foley-Levin clan, ruled over by the appropriately named matriarch, Exalta, aka Nonny, mother of Kate Levin. Nantucket, not Woodstock, is the main attraction in Hilderbrand’s ( Winter in Paradise, 2018, etc.) bittersweet nostalgia piece about the summer of 1969.Īs is typical with Hilderbrand’s fiction, several members of a family have their says.
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