Summer of ’69- Engaging and Excellent

1. Summer of ’69- Engaging and Excellent Family drama is always a fun genre to explore. It shows people of all kinds as they move through life, travel difficult patches, and in the end arrive at a different and more advanced and enhanced self of themselves. “Summer of ‘69”, tells the tale of a family that is going through such a difficult patch in life. As the different members of the family trek their way through life, taking the blows as and when they come, ducking when required, and retaliating at times too, Elin Hilderbrand shows knits the tale with the historical events of the time, showing how those affected the lives of the Levin household. Here is an honest review that will help you if you are thinking about giving the novel a shot. Plot The year of ’69 was a happening year in the history of the USA, but the Levin family was not far behind in those terms either. The novel shows how historical events that occurred at the time took their toll on a family living in the States at the time. It is a seemingly

2. simple family but has its own set of buried drama that slowly dishevels itself throughout the pages of the novel. The family spends its summer holidays in the Nantucket family home that belongs to the family matriarch, Exalta. However, the summer of ’69 is different. The family is split up, suffering and fighting their own wars- emotional and otherwise too. A lot of disturbing news starts trickling into the family’s holiday. The only son of the family gets deployed in Vietnam as a soldier. The absence of and the potential danger in which her son is placed makes Kate start drinking. She takes refuge in alcohol as a mode to evade the grim reality. She does everything in her capacity to bring her son back to a safer location but to no immediate avail. Kate’s eldest daughter has been going through quite a crisis in her married life. She believed her husband was cheating on her. Already resentful of her husband for making her quit her job when they had gotten married, her suspicion grows by the hour and grows to the limit after which she commits a mistake herself. She seeks refuge in a former boyfriend of hers and is found in a rather compromising position by her husband with him. They have a showdown and she moves to their family home in Nantucket for the summer. The next eldest daughter is all booked taking care of her babies. She has been through her own fair share of emotional turmoil. She has been ditched in love and had to handle it all by herself. She begs her parents to allow her to have a fresh start and is seen struggling with the same through the pages of the novel. She is determined to not let her past mistakes affect her future.

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