Monday, May 13, 2019

Giveaway - Out East - John Glynn

Do you enjoy memoirs? Yes? Then, I have the book for you! John Glynn's memoir Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer releases tomorrow and I have a copy to giveaway to one lucky reader.

What's it about? From Grand Central Publishing:

"A gripping 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.

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 Eastis 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." Read an excerpt of Out East.

"John Glynn is an editor at Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. He grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts and lives in New York City. Out East is his first book." You can connect with John on his website, like him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.

And if you'd like to read Out East, enter for a chance to win a copy using the Rafflecopter form below. Open to US and Canada, ends May 25/19.

3 comments:

traveler said...

Thanks for this captivating and fascinating story which I would enjoy greatly.

Elisabeth said...

Thanks for the giveaway, looks like a good read!

John Smith said...

The author looks quite nice! It will be interesting to read his take on Montauk in the olden days of 2013!