And I fell so in love with it that as soon as that second school year was over, I moved to Nantucket permanently. I had the summer between those two years off so I headed back up to the Cape and Islands, specifically Nantucket, where I had rented a room in a house for the summer. I taught 8th grade English - first in the NYC public schools, and then I got a better job teaching in Westchester county (fun fact: the actor Max Greenfield of NEW GIRL was my student that year!). When I graduated from college (Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore) I moved to New York City. I made a promise to myself that somehow I would find a way back to the beach. It was 1986 and I spent 8 hours a day folding Rambo headbands. I spent my seventeenth summer working in a factory that made Halloween costumes. Then, when I was sixteen, my father was killed in a plane crash and those summers came to an end. We rented a cottage on a sandy lane that led to the sound and we had all of these summer traditions - outdoor showers, beach days, grilling out, miniature golf, soft-serve ice cream, falling asleep with sand in the sheets. It was my father, my stepmother and their blended family of five children. Those summers were the happiest times of my life. But into the house, into their world, steps twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn.īarefoot weaves these four lives together in a story with enthralling sweep and scope-a novel that is as fun and memorable and bittersweet as that one perfect day of summer.I grew up outside of Philadelphia but my family would spend the month of July in Brewster, Mass on the Cape. They have come to escape, enjoy the sun, and relax in Nantucket's calming air. And their friend Melanie, after seven failed in vitro attempts, is pregnant at last-but only after learning that her husband is having an affair. Her sister, Brenda, has just left her job after being caught in an affair with a student.
Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Three women-burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues-tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their lives-from marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness.
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