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- The View cohost, five-time Emmy Award winner, and New York Times bestselling author Sunny Hostin celebrates family, friendship, and love in this third book of her Summer Beach SeriesHighland Beach, the oldest historically Black beach community in America, was founded in the late 1800s along the Chesapeake Bay by the son of Frederick Douglass.
- Author(s): Sunny Hostin
- 336 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, African American
- Series Name: Summer Beach
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Book Synopsis
The View cohost, five-time Emmy Award winner, and New York Times bestselling author Sunny Hostin celebrates family, friendship, and love in this third book of her Summer Beach Series
Highland Beach, the oldest historically Black beach community in America, was founded in the late 1800s along the Chesapeake Bay by the son of Frederick Douglass. Inside this proud and secluded community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones's legacy.
But Olivia's legacy comes with thorns--intertwined are secrets of her aunt's death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or anything that will interfere with her son's political career; and a father who wants to rebuild the family he rejected decades ago.
In the midst of tense family drama, Olivia must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor--with the neighbors and wonderful man who've become central to her happiness--or finally achieve her dream of having a family and home to call her own in Highland Beach.
Review Quotes
"Hostin has penned another deliciously soapy beach read about elite Black beach communities . . . [the novel] touches on themes of mental health, family history, and the sometimes stifling reality of small-town living." -- Booklist
"Hostin's debut novel is aspirational escapism at its best, balancing an idyllic setting and lush, evocative language with emotional heft and adroit social commentary... Hostin's story is a vast, intricate and ultimately rewarding one about love, family and self-fulfillment... In short, this book is summer incarnate." -- New York Times Book Review on Summer on the Bluffs
"A complicated, memorable tale of family, allegiances, secrets and summertime." -- Good Morning America on Summer on the Bluffs
"The Emmy Award-winning lawyer and journalist invites readers to the exclusive Black beach community of Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, where the money is old, the secrets are deadly, and summer is more of a sport than a season...Think The Undoing with a hint of melanin, where everyone's wearing $300 sandals." -- Essence on Summer on the Bluffs
"The highly anticipated summer must-read from the talented co-host of The View is finally here... No one, including the reader, is prepared for the feelings and secrets exchanged in this novel about love, family, and the courage to make the hardest of decisions." -- Shondaland on Summer on the Bluffs
"This glorious piece of summer fiction takes us to Oak Bluffs, a slice of the island that's been home to the Black community elite for summers since the 1600s. Come for the ethereal setting and beautifully drawn characters, stay for the family dynamics, personal secrets and wisdom revealed." -- Boston Herald
"Emmy-winning co-host of The View, Sunny Hostin invites readers to Martha's Vineyard in her fiction debut...what follows is a summer full of secrets that puts family ties to the ultimate test." -- Woman's World
"Bestselling author and The View cohost Sunny Hostin has penned the ultimate beach read in Summer on the Bluffs." -- Popsugar
"Summer on the Bluffs by the Emmy-award winning Sunny Hostin is a delicious, shimmering novel about the lives of Amelia Vaux Tanner and her three, grown-up godchildren. I was riveted by these fascinating, complicated women, and looked forward every day to opening Hostin's luminous novel and escaping, through its pages, to the golden dunes of Martha's Vineyard." -- Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters
