Two sisters and their lifelong friend Paul spend one final summer together at the beach house next door to his widowed mother's on Fire Island. As Alice and Paul's decades-old friendship quietly transforms into something more, Riley hides a worsening heart condition from everyone around her — until it is too late.
Ann Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with three brothers and attended a Quaker school in the D.C. area called Sidwell Friends. She studied Philosophy at Barnard College, part of Columbia University in New York City. Expecting to continue studying philosophy in graduate school, Ann took a year off after college to work as an editor, hoping to save money for school. Loving her job, she never went to graduate school, and instead, remained in New York City and worked as an editor for many...