Out east by john glynn6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This little book sure does pack a powerful punch. Little did I know just how powerful a read it would be. While I have not been to Montauk in ages and have not never done a summer share out there, this book called to me. My thoughts: I admit, I agreed to read this memoir because it’s set in Montauk at the tip of Long Island, which I am proud to call home. OUT EAST is an indelible story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment. Tightly woven friend group and came to define how they would live out To Labor Day, The Hive was a center of gravity, a port of call, a home.įriendships, conflicts, secrets and epiphanies blossomed within this John’s own reckoning with a half-formed sense of self. Portrait of a summer, of the Hive and the people who lived in it, and At 27, he was crippled by anĪll-encompassing loneliness, a feeling he had carried in his heart forĪs long as he could remember. Packing his duffel for that first Memorialĭay Weekend, he prayed for clarity. Against the moonlight the house’s octagonal roof ![]() Hill, and each summer thirty one people would sleep between its thin The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting Published: May 2019, Grand Central PublishingĪ 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. Title: Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer ![]()
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