Coastal Summer Reads Author Panel with Jamie Brenner, Brooke Lea Foster, and Sara Shukla on July 23 from 5:30 to 7:45 PM
Meet and mingle with the authors and find your next great beach read!
It wouldn’t be summer in New England without the classic beach read, and on Tuesday, July 23 from 5:30 to 7:45 PM, Ink Fish Books will host a Coastal Summer Reads Author Panel with Jamie Brenner (A NOVEL SUMMER), Brooke Lea Foster (ALL THE SUMMERS IN BETWEEN), and Sara Shukla (PINK WHALES) to discuss themes of love, place, belonging, and the complex female relationships that each of their books share.
Tickets are $5 and include light refreshments, an author meet and greet, and book signing.
Space is limited. PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE.
Books will be for sale at the event, in store, or online.
About the Books
A Novel Summer by Jamie Brenner
"With A Novel Summer, Jamie Brenner truly captures the essence of one of the world’s most beautiful beach towns—and I loved the bookstore setting. My only wish was that it was longer as I already miss the great characters she created. A triumphant new novel!" —Jeff Peters, Owner of East End Books
Author Shelby Albert found inspiration for her first novel while living in the picturesque shores of Provincetown on Cape Cod. When she comes to the town to celebrate her new bestseller, she is expecting a warm homecoming. But instead she is blindsided by the cold shoulders of friends and neighbors who feel exposed and betrayed.
Heartbroken, Shelby tries to move on and focus on her next novel. But then an unexpected opportunity arises: Her dear friend who owns the beloved Lands End bookshop needs help for the summer. Shelby reluctantly returns to the Cape to manage the store.
Back at the beach, Shelby sets her focus on the tiny seaside shop, getting lost in the stacks of steamy romance novels and dusty classics, and trying to right the wrongs of her past. With every page turned and every customer served, Shelby comes closer to gaining back the trust of those she hurt. But as her manuscript deadline nears, she is again forced to choose between her own success and a second chance at love and belonging.
All the summers in between by brooke lea foster
“A mesmerizing story of the complexities of female friendship and the yearning of women to live full lives. Foster depicts the 1970s with sensitivity and a rich command of detail, and as the pace picks up toward a perfectly executed denouement, you won’t be able to turn away.” —Beatriz Williams
When wealthy, impulsive summer girl Margot meets hardworking and steady local girl Thea in the summer of 1967, the unlikely pair become fast friends, working alongside one another in a record store and spending every spare moment together. But after an unspeakable incident on one devastating August night, they don’t see one another for ten years...until Margot suddenly reappears in Thea’s life, begging for help and harboring more than one dangerous secret. Thea can’t bring herself to refuse her beloved friend—but she also knows she can’t fully trust her either.
Unfulfilled as a housewife, Thea enjoys the dazzling sense of adventure Margot brings to her life, but will the truth of what happened to them that fateful summer ruin everything? Testing the boundaries of how far she’ll go for a friend, Thea is forced to reckon with her uncertain future while trying to decide if some friends are meant to remain in the past.
Set in the dual timelines of 1967 and 1977, All the Summers In Between is at once a mesmerizing portrait of a complex friendship, a delicious glimpse into a bygone Hamptons, and a powerful coming-of-age for two young women during a transformative era.
Pink whales by Sara shukla
“Pink Whales is a delicious, hilarious, voicey romp of a novel about Charlie, a wife and mother who doesn’t feel she belongs in her new home in preppy New England. Sara Shukla has an absolutely killer sense of humor, and the voice is pitch perfect. I adored it.” —Annie Hartnett, author of Unlikely Animals and Rabbit Cake
Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal New England with her mysteriously distant husband, Dev, and their young twins in tow. She hopes the move will recharge her stalled marriage, and she wants her kids to feel like they belong, even if she’s clearly a fish out of water herself. In a strange new world where summer is a verb and both the harbor and the partygoers are awash in a dizzying constellation of pinks and pastels, she’s never felt so confounded or alone. She’ll need more than a preppy handbook to find her way.
Then a trio of power moms—imposing, beautiful, and monogrammed—comes to the rescue, and Charlie clings to their attention like a life raft. As Dev pulls further away, Charlie dives into her newfound friends’ circle of yacht clubs, rivalries, and bizarre theme parties, hoping to find her sea legs. She even dares to cozy up to a hot, barefoot, and aggressively flirty local. But if she’s running from her problems at home, where exactly is she escaping to? Charlie is beginning to wonder. This ridiculous new normal—and her desire to be part of it—might just eat her alive.
About the Authors
Jamie Brenner is the bestselling author of seven novels including The Forever Summer and Blush. She spends her winters writing in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and her summers visiting the beach towns that inspire her books.
Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning author and journalist who has worked as a writer and editor at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Huffington Post and the Washingtonian magazine. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Parents, PARADE, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, Psychology Today, among others. Her novels, Summer Darlings and On Gin Lane, were featured as top summer reads in People, named a top summer pick by Entertainment Weekly, and named one of Parade’s best books of summer. She writes the popular Dear Fiction newsletter and she's the author of three nonfiction books. All the Summers in Between is her third novel.
Sara Shukla is an editor for WBUR’s Cognoscenti. You can find her writing at WBUR as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeneys, and elsewhere. An alum of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator and the University of Virginia, she lives in Rhode Island with her family.
At the Event
Space is limited and we want YOU to be there. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased in advance HERE.
Books will be available for purchase at the event and in store.
Or order/preorder online below.
A NOVEL SUMMER Available in paperback beginning July 16.
ALL THE SUMMERS IN BETWEEN Available beginning June 4.
PINK WHALES Available beginning June 4.