I read it easily in one setting and quite enjoyed catching up with Kate and the kids, particularly the youngest, Jessie, who was my favorite in '69 and remains so ten years later. This is a slim e-book (coming out later in book form as part of a tribute anthology to the late Dorothea Benton Frank). And, because she's so good at bringing them to life, the concept works perfectly. It only makes sense that she would allow us to check in on her characters at a later date. Elin Hilderbrand is such an excellent author and so good at world-building for her characters. But many books are so engaging-the characters so vivid-that you often wonder what has happened to them. There are a few books in the world that end perfectly, and you don't need another word. Crimmins, their former caretaker, slept beside her." She died in her sleep two days earlier in the house on Fair Street, while Mr. Kate and her children, Blair, Kirby, Tiger, and Jessie, gather again on Nantucket after the death of Kate's mother, Exalta. This is an excellent novella following up with the Foley/Levin gang ten years after the events of Summer of '69.
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