Earlier this week, John Glynn’s debut novel, Out East, was published. To help the publisher
get the word out, I am hosting a giveaway for two lucky readers…one giveaway is being hosted here & one is being hosted on my Instagram page.
I just finished reading this book and posted my review earlier today – you can find my review here.
Read on to see what others have to say and then you can find out where to enter the giveaway below!!!
Title: Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
Author: John Glynn
Published: May 2019, Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Summary:
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 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.
OUT EAST is an indelible story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment.
What readers are saying:
“Glynn’s memoir is perfectly evocative of long, lazy summers, taking
place over a few months in Montauk and charting the blossoming of
friendships, the heat of new romances, and the journeys to
self-discovery.”―Entertainment Weekly
“A
moving account of the particular sort of loneliness that descends when
you know you’re unhappy but don’t quite know why, and the boundless
devotion of the chosen family who’s there while you’re figuring it
out.”―Oprah.com
“This book perfectly captures
unrequited love and longing, as John struggles with growing feelings for
his fellow vacationer… this one is staying on my shelf forever.”―Cosmopolitan
“Sun-soaked
and brimming with youth, Glynn’s debut memoir chronicles a
life-changing summer spent in a Montauk share house. With honesty,
heart, and generosity, the memoir explores friendship, first love, and
identity.”―The Millions
“‘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
“Out
East is full of intimacy and hope and frustration and joy, an
extraordinary tale of emotional awakening and lacerating ambivalence, a
confession of self-doubt that becomes self-knowledge. It beautifully
charts the dynamics of a group of people in a house share, but it’s also
about the emergence of its narrator into an exquisite emotional
honesty. It’s gripping and generous, and hidden in its rollicking
naivete is a good measure of authentic wisdom.”―Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner
“No
author has captured a millennial milieu better or with more empathy
than John Glynn. Out East is a perfectly paced memoir and riveting
portrait of a friend group. I loved it.”―Anita Shreve, New York Times bestselling author of The Pilot’s Wife and The Stars are Fire
“John
Glynn wonderfully captures it all: the bars, the clothes, the music,
the breakups, the giddiness and terror of being young in New York,
searching for yourself all week, searching for someone else on weekends,
in one of the world’s most hauntingly beautiful beach towns. If you’re
in your twenties you’ll smile and nod at the joy and pain of Glynn’s
quest. If you’re not in your twenties, he’ll make you feel as if you
are. A gorgeous debut.”―J.R. Moehringer, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar
“As
a microcosmic rendition of a lost summer’s drunken rhythms and Glynn’s
slowly unfolding realization about his own sexuality, the writing
resonates with a shimmery tingle.”―Publisher’s Weekly
“It’s
at its most personal that his memoir shines brightest, grasping at the
many ways there are to love and be and ultimately reveling in them.”―Booklist
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Giveaway Details — (US or Canada Only) Thanks to the publisher, two readers will win a finished copy of Out East by John Glynn.
There are 2 options to enter: by the rafflecopter here on this page and by heading over to my Instagram page to this post.
You can enter on both if you so choose. Both giveaways will end on
Wednesday, May 22nd, and are not affiliated with or sponsored by
Instagram or Blogger.
A memoir which was unforgettable and beautiful was A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal.
Sounds like a memorable read. Thanks for the review.
Chasing the Dragon by Cathy Smith.