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Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer | John Glynn
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A gripping, unforgettable portrait of life in a Montauk summer house--a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family. "'We were sun children chasing an eternal summer.' This boisterous chronicle of a summer in Montauk sees a group of 20-something housemates who'll grow to know, to love, and care for one another. They work hard during the week, party hard on weekends, and each will face heartthrob and heartbreak. A coming out story told with feeling and humor and above all with the razor-sharp skill of a delicate and highly gifted writer." -Andre Aciman, New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. 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. Against the moonlight the house's octagonal roof resembled a bee's nest. It was dubbed The Hive. In 2013, John Glynn joined the share house. Packing his duffel for that first Memorial Day Weekend, he prayed for clarity. At 27, he was crippled by an all-encompassing loneliness, a feeling he had carried in his heart for as long as he could remember. John didn't understand the loneliness. He just knew it was there. Like the moon gone dark. 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. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, The Hive was a center of gravity, a port of call, a home. 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. Blending the sand-strewn milieu of George Howe Colt's The Big House, 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.
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shaynarae
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Mehso-so

I don‘t want to hate on anyone‘s memoir, but this didn‘t do it for me. The last 2 hours of the audiobook were romantically compelling, but the rest of the book was not my scene. “Summer camp for adults” sounds like a nightmare. I‘m perfectly fine having left my party days behind me, which is what most of the story centered on rather than deeper exploration of the characters‘ relationships. I did like that it read like a novel, though.

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SteveWJones
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Panpan

I think this one belongs to the Millennials. The parties, the drinking and the dating dramas simply weren‘t interesting to me. But I‘m glad he figured himself out.

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LTOC
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Not good.

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Lauren.Archer
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This was a fabulous memoir that tells the story of first loves, exploring their sexuality and having a great share house in Montauk in the summer of 2013. Very well written, considering Glynn is an editor for a publisher I would expect nothing less. I enjoyed his story telling about his summer of exploration.

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Lauren.Archer
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Next up!

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GerardtheBookworm
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A Millennial memoir that captures the essence of Andre Aciman and the humor of Andrew Greer's Less. John Glynn and his group of college friends spend the summer in Montauk and learns more about himself and the person he wants to be in this LGBT memoir that is both haunting and atmospheric.

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