![]() ![]() ![]() She is not looking forward to spending the summer on Nantucket with her grandmother, but her parents insist she go and as hard as she tries there is no getting out of it. Summer of ’69 is about three sisters ranging in age from 13 – 24. My Opinion:Īfter seeing the cover and learning that this is Elin Hilderbrand’s first historical fiction story, it took me all of two seconds to decide that this is a book I want to read. ![]() As the summer heats up, Teddy Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, a man flies to the moon, and Jessie experiences some sinking and flying herself, as she grows into her own body and mind. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother who is hiding some secrets of her own. ![]() Only son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Middle sister Kirby, a nursing student, is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests, a passion which takes her to Martha’s Vineyard with her best friend, Mary Jo Kopechne. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother’s historic home in downtown Nantucket: but this year Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It’s 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. ![]()
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