![]() Out East is the portrait of a summer, of The Hive and the people who lived in it, and John's own reckoning with a half-formed sense of self. At twenty-seven, he was crippled by an all-encompassing loneliness, a feeling he had carried in his heart for as long as he could remember. ![]() ![]() Packing his duffel for that first Memorial Day Weekend, he prayed for clarity. In 2013, John Glynn joined the share house. Against the moonlight the house's octagonal roof resembled a bee's nest. The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a hill, and each summer thirty-one people would sleep between its thin walls and shag carpets. They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. An "extraordinary" debut memoir of first love, identity, and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family in a Montauk summer house (Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner). ![]()
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