Shoulder Season, Christina Clancy
Shoulder Season, Christina Clancy
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Shoulder Season
A Novel

Author: Christina Clancy

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/06/2021


Synopsis

Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America • CNN • Parade • EW • Travel & Leisure • PopSugar • New York Post • BuzzFeed • Brit & Co • SheReads • Women.com

A dazzling portrait of a young woman coming into her own, the youthful allure of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and what we lose—and gain—when we leave home.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME, YOU CAN HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE

The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she leaves the only home she’s ever known for the chance to be part of a glamorous slice of history. In the winter of 1981, in a costume two sizes too small, her toes pinched by stilettos, Sherri joins the daughters of dairy farmers and factory workers for the defining experience of her life.

Living in the “bunny hutch”—Playboy’s version of a college dorm—Sherri gets her education in the joys of sisterhood, the thrill of financial independence, the magic of first love, and the heady effects of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But as spring gives way to summer, Sherri finds herself caught in a romantic triangle—and the tragedy that ensues will haunt her for the next forty years.

From the Midwestern prairie to the California desert, from Wisconsin lakes to the Pacific Ocean, this is a story of what happens when small town life is sprinkled with stardust, and what we lose—and gain—when we leave home. With a heroine to root for and a narrative to get lost in, Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season is a sexy, evocative tale, drenched in longing and desire, that captures a fleeting moment in American history with nostalgia and heart.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About Christina Clancy

Christina Clancy is the author of The Second Home and Shoulder Season. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Sun magazine, and in various literary journals. She splits her time between Madison and Palm Springs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on November 30, 2021

Wowza! What an interesting, intriguing, informative story takes place at the 80’s fabulously waning times of Wisconsin’s Playboy House! Yes,I know those few words already got your attention! Welcome to the bunnies world! Nope, we’re not reading “Watership Down”, I’m not talking about those lovely, b......more

Goodreads review by Theresa on December 02, 2020

I was worried that this fictional book would traumatize me the way Gloria Steinem’s essay “I was a Playboy Bunny,” did in her anthology Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions when Steinem went undercover and wrote about the experience. When Sherri gets a job as a bunny in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, at......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on July 12, 2021

I enjoyed Christina Clancy’s debut, The Second Home, last summer, and could not wait to read Shoulder Season this summer. The latter is historical fiction. Did you know there was a Playboy Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin? Shoulder Season is Sherri’s story of working there beginning at age nineteen.......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on July 12, 2021

Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy is a historical women’s fiction novel set in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in the early 1980s. While this title is fiction it is based on a true location of the Lake Geneva Playboy Club. The club was opened in May of 1968 as a Playboy resort and stayed through the early......more


Awards

  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Guide to the 100 Best Books of the Year
  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Books of the Year