Summer on Sag Harbor

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor in this instant New York Times bestseller, the second novel in her acclaimed Summer series.

In a hidden enclave in Sag Harbor, affectionately known as SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Nineveh--there's a close-knit community of African American elites who escape the city and enjoy the beautiful warm weather and beaches at their vacation homes. Since the 1930s, very few have known about this Historically Black Beachfront Community in this part of the Hamptons on Long Island, and the residents like it that way.

That is, until real estate developers discover the hidden gem. And now, the residents must fight for the soul of this HBBC.

Against the odds, Olivia Jones has blazed her own enviable career path and built her name in the finance world. But hidden behind the veneer of her success, there is a gaping hole. Mourning both the loss and the betrayal of Omar, a surrogate father to her and her two godsisters, Olivia is driven to solve the mystery of what happened to her biological father, a police officer unjustly killed when she was a little girl.

Untethered from her life in New York City, Olivia moves to a summer home in Sag Harbor and begins forging a new community out in this HBBC. Friendships blossom with Kara, an ambitious art curator; and Whitney, the wife of an ex-basketball player and current president of the Sag Harbor Homeowners Association; and a sexy new neighbor and single father, Garrett, who makes her reconsider her engagement with Anderson. She also takes to a kind, older gentleman named Mr. Whittingham, but soon discovers he too is not without his own troubles.

As the summer stretches on, each relationship teaches her more about who she really is. Though not without cost, Olivia's search for her authentic identity in the secret history of her family of origin and her fight to preserve her new Black utopia, will lead her to redefine the meaning of love, friendship, community, and family--and restore her faith in herself, her relationships, and her chosen path.

Author: Sunny Hostin
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780062994219


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2022 pg. 12
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2023
Booklist 05/01/2023 pg. 21
Publishers Weekly 06/19/2023

About the Author
Hostin, Sunny: -

SUNNY HOSTIN is the 3-time Emmy Award-winning legal journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and co-host of The View. On May 4, Hostin released her debut novel, Summer on the Bluffs (William Morrow), which skyrocketed to #11 on the New York Times Bestseller List, the first book in her Summer trilogy. Last fall, Hostin released her memoir, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds, with HarperOne. Hostin has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Woman, Essence, Newsweek, the New York Post, Latina, and Ebony. A sought-after public speaker, she has delivered a TEDxTalk called "A Possibility Model" and spoken at and moderated panels for the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Corporate Counsel Women of Color, and the National Bar Association, and served as a witness at the Federal Judiciary's Congressional Hearing for the Public's Right of Access to the Courts. Hostin lives with her husband and two children in New York.