That Summer in Maine, Brianna Wolfson
That Summer in Maine, Brianna Wolfson
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That Summer in Maine

Author: Brianna Wolfson

Narrator: Amy McFadden

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2020


Synopsis

“Wolfson’s writing is superb.” —The Washington Post

A novel about mothers and daughters, about taking chances, about exploding secrets and testing the boundaries of family

Years ago, during a certain summer in Maine, two young women, unaware of each other, met a charismatic man at a craft fair and each had a brief affair with him. For Jane it was a chance to bury her recent pain in raw passion and redirect her life. For Susie it was a fling that gave her troubled marriage a way forward.

Now, sixteen years later, the family lives these women have made are suddenly upended when their teenage girls meet as strangers on social media. They concoct a plan to spend the summer in Maine with the man who is their biological father. Their determination puts them on a collision course with their mothers, who must finally meet and acknowledge their shared past and join forces as they risk losing their only daughters to a man they barely know.

About Brianna Wolfson

Brianna Wolfson is a New York native living in San Francisco. Her narrative nonfiction has been featured on Medium, Upworthy and The Moth. She buys a lottery ticket every Friday.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on June 27, 2020

3.5 stars Sixteen years ago, two young women met Silas, a handsome young man at a craft fair, and had affairs with him. For Jane, it was a summer-long affair to help her cope with the recent deaths of her parents. For Sue, it was to relieve some stress over the fertility struggles she and her husband......more

Goodreads review by DJ on July 03, 2020

Favorite Quotes: It would have been better if that silence between them was thick and heavy with sadness or regret, but it had become light and comfortable now. Hazel and her mother were now connected by only the loosest stitch. And from that moment on, every subsequent message that Hazel received fro......more

Goodreads review by Nila on May 24, 2020

A different read about relationships. A mother and daughter struggling to connect. Add to that a new family along with a half sister and an unknown birth father, the story had its share of complicated relationships. My first book by this author, I loved the emotions evoked by the mother-daughter duo.......more

Goodreads review by Bkwmlee on June 18, 2020

3.5 stars One of the things I remember most about Brianna Wolfson’s debut novel Rosie-Colored Glasses, which I had read back in 2018, was how emotionally resonant the book was for me. At the time, it was one of my favorite reads of the year (one that I rated 5 stars of course) and, more significa......more