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OUT EAST
One propulsive, sand-strewn summer in which debut memoirist John Glynn felt his crushing loneliness sharpen into an aching, wholly unexpected love for another man amid friendships, secrets and epiphanies.
In 2013, John Glynn joined a sharehouse for the summer in Montauk, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean at the tip of Long Island. Packing his duffel for that first Memorial Day Weekend, he prayed for clarity. At 27, he was crippled by an all-encompassing loneliness, a feeling he had carried in his heart for as long as he could remember. John didn't understand it; he just knew it was there.
Over that one unforgettable summer, 31 people would sleep between its thin walls. Against the moonlight the house's octagonal roof resembled a bee's nest; they called it The Hive.
OUT EAST is the portrait of a summer, of the Hive and the people who lived in it, and John's own reckoning with a half-formed sense of self. The Hive was a center of gravity: friendships, conflicts, secrets and epiphanies blossomed within this tightly woven friend group and came to define how they would live out the rest of their twenties and beyond. Cailen's mother was diagnosed with cancer. Beautiful Ashley was so choked with insecurity that she brought her hair straightener to the dive bars each night. Mike and Scott's relationship was about to implode. And John was confronting his sexuality. For the first time, he was falling in love with a guy.
Blending the sand-strewn milieu of George Howe Colt's The Big House, the radiant aching of Olivia Liang's The Lonely City, and the novelistic prose of Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation, Out East is a keenly wrought story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment.
John Glynn is a book editor at Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. Prior to joining Hanover Square, he was an associate editor at Scribner, where he worked on a number of New York Times bestsellers. He grew up in western Massachusetts and lives in New York City. Out East is his first book.
Over that one unforgettable summer, 31 people would sleep between its thin walls. Against the moonlight the house's octagonal roof resembled a bee's nest; they called it The Hive.
OUT EAST is the portrait of a summer, of the Hive and the people who lived in it, and John's own reckoning with a half-formed sense of self. The Hive was a center of gravity: friendships, conflicts, secrets and epiphanies blossomed within this tightly woven friend group and came to define how they would live out the rest of their twenties and beyond. Cailen's mother was diagnosed with cancer. Beautiful Ashley was so choked with insecurity that she brought her hair straightener to the dive bars each night. Mike and Scott's relationship was about to implode. And John was confronting his sexuality. For the first time, he was falling in love with a guy.
Blending the sand-strewn milieu of George Howe Colt's The Big House, the radiant aching of Olivia Liang's The Lonely City, and the novelistic prose of Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation, Out East is a keenly wrought story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment.
John Glynn is a book editor at Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. Prior to joining Hanover Square, he was an associate editor at Scribner, where he worked on a number of New York Times bestsellers. He grew up in western Massachusetts and lives in New York City. Out East is his first book.
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