Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the 20th century. It’s 1969, and for the Levin family, the times are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother‘s historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, this year nothing is the same. Blair, the eldest sister is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins, and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be an independent, takes a summer job on Martha’s Vineyard. Beloved son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. 13 year-old Jess suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch, grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. Ellen Hildebrand tells a page-turning story, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and island 30 miles out to sea.