Summer on Highland Beach: A Novel
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The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in the captivating third novel of her New York Times bestselling Summer Beach series.
In this awakening, spirited novel, Sunny Hostin celebrates family, friendship, and community and reminds us of the importance of the legacies of our collective past and finding one's way in the world.
Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones's legacy.
But Oliva's legacy comes with thorns—intertwined are secrets of her aunt's death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or anything that will interfere with her son's political career; and a father who wants to rebuild the family he rejected decades ago.
In the midst of tense family drama, Olivia must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor—with the neighbors and wonderful man who've become central to her happiness—or finally achieve her dream of having a family and home to call her own in Highland Beach.
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Sunny Hostin. (2024). Summer on Highland Beach: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sunny Hostin. 2024. Summer On Highland Beach: A Novel. HarperCollins.
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In this awakening, spirited novel, Sunny Hostin celebrates family, friendship, and community and reminds us of the importance of the legacies of our collective past and finding one's way in the world.
Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones's legacy.
But Oliva's legacy comes with thorns—intertwined are secrets of her aunt's death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or anything that will interfere with her son's political career; and a father who wants to rebuild the family he rejected decades ago.
In the midst of tense family drama, Olivia must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor—with the neighbors and wonderful man who've become central to her happiness—or finally achieve her dream of having a family and home to call her own in Highland Beach.
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In Summer on Sag Harbor (2023), Olivia Jones was gobsmacked to learn who her real father was, and she's spending the summer on Highland Beach, outside of Annapolis, to get to know him better. Olivia wants to lay low--CJ, her father, is the mayor, and, besides, she doesn't want strangers in her personal life--but that's impossible in the tight-knit beach enclave. An anonymous Facebook post outs Olivia, so she hightails it to Sag Harbor and the comfort of her boyfriend, Garrett, and his sweet daughter, Zora. But Garrett accuses her of running away and holding back, two things preventing their relationship from progressing. Chagrined, Olivia heads back to Highland Beach, where her paternal grandmother, obsessed with the good name of a family that can be traced back to Frederick Douglass, has plans for her. Hostin has penned another deliciously soapy beach read about elite Black beach communities that, with a mystery surrounding the death of CJ's sister years ago, touches on themes of mental health, family history, and the sometimes-stifling reality of small-town living. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The View cohost Hostin's previous Summer Beach novels have been best-sellers, and readers have been waiting for the continuation of Olivia's story.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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An elite Black community in coastal Maryland learns that the mayor has a "secret love child." Having set her previous Summer Beach books in the enclaves of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, and Sag Harbor, New York, The View host Hostin closes up shop in Highland Beach, a resort community founded in the late 19th century by Frederick Douglass' son. According to its website, it is "residential only, does not offer opportunities for tourism and cannot accommodate visits from the general public." Hostin definitely conveys that attitude as her character Olivia Jones pays a hesitant first visit to the snooty town, whose mayor is her long-estranged father, Charles "CJ" Jones, whose reelection will be compromised by her arrival. (Olivia's complicated backstory is explained hastily and will remain opaque to those who haven't read the first two books.) She is also meeting for the first time her evil grandmother, Christine Douglass-Jones (that Douglass), a woman who sees the death of two of her three children as more a reputation problem than a cause for mourning. Don't feel sorry for me, she tells an old enemy, "I have money, class, and I've traveled to places you've only dreamed of." Maybe this is meant to be a laugh line, but some of the wooden dialogue, the tabloid-type gossip about Frederick Douglass, and the oddly placed, uninspiring descriptions of people's attire are not. In one laugh-out-loud moment, a deus ex machinacharacter storms into a town meeting "wearing an ankle-length persimmon dress." No designer or anything! As in previous books, characters rely on therapy to deal with their messy lives and romances (Olivia has managed to screw up a good thing she had going in Sag Harbor). The wisdom of Olivia's therapist, Dr. LaGrange, saves the day: "Life is a journey. You hit a milestone and then you move on to your next goal. The work never really ends. Nor should it." This beach trilogy, however, should. Lacks the zest of the earlier books and doubles down on the weak writing.COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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In this awakening, spirited novel, Sunny Hostin celebrates family, friendship, and community and reminds us of the importance of the legacies of our collective past and finding one's way in the world.
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But Oliva's legacy comes with thorns—intertwined are secrets of her aunt's death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or anything that will interfere with her son's political career; and a father who wants to rebuild the family he rejected decades ago.
In the midst of tense family...
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