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THE HIGH SEASON
THE HIGH SEASON is the ultimate summer read—featuring indelible characters, crackling wit, and sophisticated storytelling—about one season when everything in a woman's life goes wrong. It’s perfect for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, and readers who loved Emma Straub’s THE VACATIONERS, and Cynthia d’Aprix Sweeney’s THE NEST.
On Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, Ruthie, her still-adored ex-husband, Mike, and the couple's sullen 15-year-old daughter, Jem, are packing up the last bits of their household in preparation for the yearly arrival of a wealthy renter from Manhattan. It is what Jem calls "the summer bummer": her parents own a beautiful house that they have renovated by hand from top to bottom, but which they can only afford to keep by leasing it out during the best part of the year.
Soon Ruthie's relationship with Mike seems about to disappear for good. The job she loves, as the underpaid and undervalued director of the local arts museum, is under siege from a coterie of rich women from the city, who want to use it as an opportunity for social climbing. An old flame who once broke her heart and betrayed her is back on the scene, causing Ruthie to re-evaluate their romance. And in the midst of it all, her teenage daughter Jem could be involved in a dangerous and destructive relationship of her own.
This is a novel about the dreams and ambitions of youth coming to terms with the realities of middle-age; about the way desperation can make us astonish ourselves; and about how the most disruptive events in our lives can sometimes twist endings into new beginnings.
Judy Blundell won the National Book Award in 2008 for her YA novel WHAT I SAW AND HOW I LIED. Her novel PREMONITIONS was an American Library Association Reluctant Readers Best Picks and was chosen by the New York Public Library as a 2004 Best Books for the Teen Age. As a YA author, Blundell has written several books for the New York Times bestselling 39 Clues series.
Soon Ruthie's relationship with Mike seems about to disappear for good. The job she loves, as the underpaid and undervalued director of the local arts museum, is under siege from a coterie of rich women from the city, who want to use it as an opportunity for social climbing. An old flame who once broke her heart and betrayed her is back on the scene, causing Ruthie to re-evaluate their romance. And in the midst of it all, her teenage daughter Jem could be involved in a dangerous and destructive relationship of her own.
This is a novel about the dreams and ambitions of youth coming to terms with the realities of middle-age; about the way desperation can make us astonish ourselves; and about how the most disruptive events in our lives can sometimes twist endings into new beginnings.
Judy Blundell won the National Book Award in 2008 for her YA novel WHAT I SAW AND HOW I LIED. Her novel PREMONITIONS was an American Library Association Reluctant Readers Best Picks and was chosen by the New York Public Library as a 2004 Best Books for the Teen Age. As a YA author, Blundell has written several books for the New York Times bestselling 39 Clues series.
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