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Hilderbrand, Elin,

Summer of '69 / Summer of sixty-nine Elin Hilderbrand. - London, England : Hodder & Stoughton, 2019 - 432 pages

"Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century... Every year the Levin children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic island home, but this year it's not to be. Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests with her friend Mary Jo Kopechne. And Tiger, the only son, has just been deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie, the youngest of them all, suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother who is hiding secrets of her own... As the summer heats up, Teddy Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man walks on the moon, and Jessie experiences some sinking and flying herself, as she grows into her own body and mind."--Publisher description.

ISBN: 9780316420013 0316420018

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
Summer--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction

LC Class. No.: PS

Dewey Class. No.: 813