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St. Martin's Press
June 2017
On Sale: June 6, 2017
320 pages
ISBN: 1250087511
EAN: 9781250087515
Kindle: B01MQIGA87
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Fiction | Women's Fiction Contemporary
It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets
Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer
serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long
Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets,
crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of
tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The
caterpillars become a relentless topic of island
conversation and the inescapable soundtrack of the season. It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall—only daughter of
Avalon’s most prominent family—returns with her husband, a
botanist, and their children to live in “The Castle,” the
island's grandest estate. Leslie’s husband Jules is
African-American, and their children bi-racial, and
islanders from both sides of the tracks form fast and
dangerous opinions about the new arrivals. Maddie Pencott LaRosa straddles those tracks: a teen queen
with roots in the tony precincts of East Avalon and the
crowded working class corner of West Avalon, home to Grudder
Aviation factory, the island's bread-and-butter and
birthplace of generations of bombers and war machines.
Maddie falls in love with Brooks, Leslie’s and Jules’ son,
and that love feels as urgent to Maddie as the questions
about the new and deadly cancers showing up across the
island. Could Grudder Aviation, the pride of the island—and
its patriarch, the Colonel—be to blame? As the gypsy moths burst from cocoons in flocks that seem to
eclipse the sun, Maddie’s and Brooks’ passion for each other
grows and she begins planning a life for them off Avalon Island. Vivid with young lovers, gangs of anxious outsiders; a
plotting aged matriarch and her husband, a demented military
patriarch; and a troubled young boy, each seeking his or her
own refuge, escape and revenge, The Gypsy Moth Summer
is about love, gaps in understanding, and the struggle
to connect: within families; among friends; between
neighbors and entire generations.
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