First published 2022
Three years have passed since Mallory Blessing died, but her friends still gather on Nantucket for their annual Labor Day weekend. The celebration brings unexpected drama in "The Sixth Wedding." Margot Carmichael faces a marriage crisis when she pushes her husband toward his former girlfriend in "The Surfing Lesson." At a Harvard-Yale football game, Dabney Kimball confronts the love that shaped her life in "The Tailgate." The three Levin sisters come together again after ten years apart in "Summer of '79," remembering the summer that transformed them all. These nine tales return to characters readers thought they had left behind forever. Hilderbrand provides background notes for each story, explaining her inability to abandon the people who populated her previous novels. The collection includes prequels that reveal hidden histories, sequels that continue beloved storylines, and missing chapters that fill gaps between major events.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Harvard, Nantucket, Yale
Period: 1979, 2022
368 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company