She leans over, her breath misting the glass, trying to figure out how each item works, which part goes where, and to what effect. He takes one of her curls between his fingers, pulling it straight, letting it boing back into place before he tucks it behind her ear, and rubs his thumb against her cheek. (English, of course.) But her teenage daughter can be a handful; her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. From the manicured Main Line of Philadelphia to the wild landscape of the Outer Cape, written with Jennifer Weiner’s signature wit and sharp observations, That Summer is a story about surviving our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of friendship. Revenge for a long-ago assault takes the form of an elaborate long con. She introduces the boys that she's with: Fitz and Tubbs and Stamper and Poe. It's the nud­ ists!" After showers comes siesta. Another Summer with. He'll spend his weeks in Boston, come up to the Cape on Friday afternoons, and leave Monday mornings. She shrugs and says, "Turns out, I have a terrible memory.". Then, brightening, she says, "But I'm a pretty good swimmer. "I like kids.". Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. In her imagination, she's picturing Poe, the line of his back, the way his face lights up when he sees her. She knows that he is handsome and likes to play pranks, and that the other Emlen boys look to him as their leader. She nods. There are two more bedrooms on the second level, including the master suite, where the bed and the bathtub both have stun­ning views of the bay. Dr. Levy calls from the kitchen. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781501133541, 1501133543. Diana knows she isn't beautiful, not like Marie-Francoise, with her high cheekbones and her gray-blue eyes, not like Tess Finnegan at Boston Latin, who has a perfect hourglass figure and dark-brown hair that falls in ringlets to the small of her back. There's a volleyball net, set up on the sand, and boom boxes blaring competing radio stations, and usually beer, and some­ times pot. "Come on," he says. This book will ship on and be available to pick up on its pub date: 05/18/2021. Alone in her room, she towel-dries her hair and works mousse through it, from the roots to the ends, then lets it air-dry, touching the curls anxiously, hoping they'll look right, that she'll look right. Teenagers sun themselves on the dock. Her eyes are bright; her cheeks are flushed. That Summer: A Novel - Kindle edition by Weiner, Jennifer. Her eyes :flutter shut. I felt hideous!" Enter for a chance to win one of 100 early c. She pulls her hair back in a scrunchie most days, and doesn't seem to notice, or mind, that it's frizzy. Diana, meanwhile, reads every novel she can find that's set on the Cape, and de­ scribes for her father the pristine, golden beaches, sand dunes with cranberry bogs and poet's shacks hidden in their declivities. She lives in a row house in South Boston with her parents and two sisters, and attends a private school in Cambridge, on a scholarship, where she gets mostly Bs, except for As in English and art. "Do you miss her?" One of these items ships sooner than the other. In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Diana can't help gasp­ ing when they crunch up the shell-lined driveway and she sees the house, three stories of glass and silvery cedar. She dreams about falling in love. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. The driver, a young bearded man with an easy smile, emerges from the olive-green truck and blows a single note on a plastic horn, and the kids, screaming with delight, run out of the water to ask their parents for money. an elderly husband and wife who walk to a deserted inlet and lie naked in the sand-but she's never seen them before. Visit the author’s website → Amanda Gorman Pre-Order Titles; Magic Book Titles from the Cape & Islands NPR Show! ''Ahoy!" ", Diana knows the answer is that her parents would probably not be okay. Together, Diana and her mother go to work on changing his mind. Lovebirds. When an apology leads to an invitation, the two women meet and quickly become friends. It's sparkling clean and looks barely used. Diana asks, and the boys all start laughing. Weiner made her mark chronicling the relationships of young women, and her return to that arena will garner lots of attention." Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner for a live discussion on her brand new novel, THAT SUMMER. She doesn't know what he does at night, when she's back at the house, reading or watching Masterpiece 1heater and eating ice cream out of a mug. 1970) is a bestselling novelist, television producer, and former journalist. I see your mother every day and she'd kill me if anything happens to you on my watch.". The first time, he high­ fives her, but the second time he grabs her in a bear hug, lifting her up, holding her so that they're skin to skin, chest to chest. He hates the feeling of sunscreen, and whines and tries to squirm away. Amazon • Barnes & Noble • Bookshop.org • Books-A-Million • Indie Bound • Simon & Schuster. Dr. Levy gives her a look. It's neither polka-dotted nor especially itsy-bitsy, but it's still enough to make her dad harrumph and her mom give a secretive, tucked-up kind of smile. The Irish and English kids who work at the restaurants come there when they're off-shift, along with teenagers on vaca­tion. Paddling back, she feels shiny, and beautiful, tall and strong as the breeze blows her hair and sunshine warms her shoulders, and she falls asleep picturing his face. Most days, Diana and Dr. Levy and the kids spend the late mornings and early afternoons by the water, either at the pond or at Corn Hill Beach with its wide stretch of sand and its gen­tle, lapping waves. The children are Sam and Sarah, four-year-old twins. "Weiner's storytelling skill is such that she paints an uncompromising, complicated portrait of the insidious dangers of the patriarchy that is also a lot of fun to read. The narrow straps of her white sundress set off the gleaming golden-brown crescents of her shoulders. Price set by seller. Her bathroom (her bathroom!) "Oh, I shouldn't," Dr. Levy says, helping herself to his fries as the kids come out of the water. Jennifer Weiner. That Summer by Jennifer Weiner is a wonderful modern fiction that has it all: well-crafted and complex characters, relationships, friendships, suspense, mystery, and kept me interested from beginning to end. "She'll probably meet a pack of spoiled rich kids and come back with her nose in the air.". She's brought a camera, the family's Pentax, and she can't wait to ask Dr. Levy to take her picture, to show her sisters and her mom where she's living and how well it's all worked out. Sometimes, she'll realize that she doesn't know very much about Poe. Something went wrong. Please select Pick Up/Shipping options during checkout. Diana packs her Christmas bikini, plus a plain blue tank for actual swimming, a denim romper, and a sundress made of white eyelet cotton, with skinny straps that tie in bows on her shoul­ders. "That probably sounded stupid.". It's perfect." Weiner has a personal connection to the area: her parents used to rent a two-bedroom cottage on the bay when she was young and, as an adult, she purchased her own summer house so … What grade is she in? Like, I don't even think they let fat people off the ferry. Floor-to-ceiling windows surround the room, fill­ ing it with light, looking out over the sand and the water, making Diana feel like she's standing on the deck of a ship.There are slid­ ing doors with decks everywhere-decks off the kitchen, with a grill and a picnic table, decks off the second-floor bedrooms, and a half-moon deck off the living room. So why is she up all night?While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she’s also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own. His blue T-shirt says EMLEN across the chest. Please try again. Usually they fall asleep immedi­ately, stuporous from their exertions and the sun. At dinner, which is Dr. Levy's famous lobster Cobb salad, she casually says, "Some of the kids I've met are having a bonfire on the beach tonight. ", "I'm Poe," he says. The sunshine warms her skin as she splashes through the shal­lows, and a school of minnows goes darting past, the fish flashing like shadows over her feet. Please try again. "Sure," she says, and lets him pull her to her feet. That Summer by Jennifer Weiner. She blushes, but he just grins. Weiner follows up Big Summer with another emotionally charged drama, this one centered on a #MeToo reckoning. She'll need a scholarship to attend either one, but Dr. Levy, who went to Smith, tells her it's more than possible, and that she'd be happy to help Diana with her essays when the time comes. Flip-Flops and leaves her cover-up hanging from a protruding branch her gym class did a unit on the... 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