A review by cdjdhj
Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand

3.0

This is the somewhat interesting but very long and drawn-out story about one affluent Boston family's annual summer sojourn on Nantucket island with the monied matriarch of the family. The author weaves actual historic events from the summer of 1969 (like the first humans walking on the moon and Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick scandal) into the story, but it sometimes seems contrived. The characters in the book are well-developed and generally likeable, and the atmosphere in the country during 1969 seems about right (as far as I can remember - I was a child). My main problem with the book is it's length. It seems to go on and on and on. The chapters are also very long, which seems to make the book seem longer.