Summer of '69

In Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical book, four siblings go through the drama, mystery, and upheaval during the summer of the '60s when everything changed.

Greetings from the most turbulent summer of the 20th century. The year is 1969, and things are shifting for the Levin family. The kids had eagerly anticipated spending the summers at their grandmother's old downtown Nantucket house every year. However, nothing is the same in America, as with so much else: The eldest sister, Blair, is stuck in Boston due to her twin pregnancy and unable to leave the city. Determined to be independent and enmeshed in the exciting world of civil rights marches, middle sister Kirby accepts a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Tiger, the only child, is an army soldier who was just sent to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie finds herself alone in the home with her frightened mother and out-of-touch grandma, both of whom are concealing a dark secret.

Ted Kennedy wrecks a vehicle in Chappaquiddick, a man goes to the moon, and Jessie and her family go through their own dramatic upheavals with the rest of the nation as the summer heat builds. Elin Hilderbrand proves she is still the queen of the summer book with her first historical novel, which is filled with the intricacies of a time that formed an island thirty miles out to sea as well as a country.