this one is staying on my shelf forever."- Cosmopolitan "This book perfectly captures unrequited love and longing, as John struggles with growing feelings for his fellow vacationer. "A moving account of the particular sort of loneliness that descends when you know you're unhappy but don't quite know why, and the boundless devotion of the chosen family who's there while you're figuring it out.". "Glynn's memoir is perfectly evocative of long, lazy summers, taking place over a few months in Montauk and charting the blossoming of friendships, the heat of new romances, and the journeys to self-discovery."- Entertainment Weekly "Glynn is such a warm, elegant, and gorgeously precise writer.Like the best coming-of-age books, "Out East" is a tender, patient how-to manual, sketching a path to self-actualization, or at least to self-acceptance."- The New Yorker
" Out East is full of intimacy and hope and frustration and joy, an extraordinary tale of emotional awakening and lacerating ambivalence, a confession of self-doubt that becomes self-knowledge." - Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winnerĪn Entertainment Weekly Best Book of May 2019 A Time magazine Best Book of May 2019 Cosmopolitan Best Book of May 2019 An O, the Oprah Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019 "An unforgettable story told with feeling and humor and above all with the razor-sharp skill of a delicate and highly gifted writer." - André Aciman, New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name
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.īlending the sand-strewn milieu of George Howe Colt's The Big House with the radiant aching of Olivia Liang's The Lonely City, Out East is a keenly wrought story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, The Hive was a center of gravity, a port of call, a home. 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. At twenty-seven, he was crippled by an all-encompassing loneliness, a feeling he had carried in his heart for as long as he could remember. Packing his duffel for that first Memorial Day Weekend, he prayed for clarity. In 2013, John Glynn joined the share house. Against the moonlight the house's octagonal roof resembled a bee's nest. The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a hill, and each summer thirty-one people would sleep between its thin walls and shag carpets. They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. An "extraordinary" debut memoir of first love, identity, and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family in a Montauk summer house (Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner).
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