Agreeing against his better judgment to spend a summer caring for an eccentric New England matriarch, Nathan, an aspiring graphic novelist, is frustrated by his inexperience and his employer's instability.
In Brian Groh's debut novel, Nathan Empson, a college dropout, gets what seems to be a dream job: in exchange for a hefty salary, he must merely tend to Ellen Broderick, a wealthy and eccentric New England blue blood living in a lavish coastal retreat town. But Nathan soon finds himself at odds with the old-money inhabitants, and appalled by Ellen's dropped secrets. He finds solace with the family of a local Episcopalian pastor, and begins to fall in love with the pastor's children's nanny. A quirky, cute, unexpected tale, SUMMER PEOPLE is at once a mystery, a romance, and an off-kilter comedy.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres, Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: General, Social Issues / Friendship, Humorous Fiction
- Publisher: Perennial
- Pages: 294
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: September 1, 2007
- Date Published: September 1, 2007
- Author: Brian Groh