02230cam a2200325 i 4500 771696170 TxAuBib 20190702120000.0 190423s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019012250 9780316420013 HRD 28.00 0316420018 HRD 28.00 NjBwBT eng NjBwBT rda NjBwBT IMmBT TxAuBib rda Hilderbrand, Elin, author. Summer of '69 [Book] / Elin Hilderbrand. Summer of sixty-nine. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 425 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. 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. 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. Only son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. 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. 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. n her first "historical novel," rich with the details of an era that shaped both a country and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again proves her title as queen of the summer novel. 20190702. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Nineteen sixty-nine, A.D Fiction. Historical fiction. Nantucket Island (Mass) Fiction. Domestic fiction.