The Gypsy Moth Summer, Hardcover

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ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017The Huffington Post 2017 Book Preview: 33 Titles To Add To Your Shelf The Week 28 books to read in 2017The Millions The Great 2017 Book Preview Nylon Magazine 50 Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017Read It Forward: 17 Books We're Excited to Read in 2017-The Gypsy Moth Summer plunges the reader into a hazy, hot daydream of hidden truth, scandal, and racial prejudice. With bold strokes, Julia Fierro creates a vivid world where privilege and class are merely a veneer to distract from the cracks beneath the surface.- -- Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time-Fierro doesn't just observe, she knows. Like all great novelists, she gives us the world.- - Amy Bloom, bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island conversation and the inescapable soundtrack of the season. It is also the summer Leslie Day Marshall--only daughter of Avalon's most prominent family--returns with her husband, a botanist, and their children to live in -The Castle, - the island's grandest estate. Leslie's husband Jules is African-American, and their children bi-racial, and islanders from both sides of the tracks form fast and dangerous opinions about the new arrivals. Maddie Pencott La Rosa straddles those tracks: a teen queen with roots in the tony precincts of East Avalon and the crowded working class corner of West Avalon, home to Grudder Aviation factory, the island's bread-and-butter and birthplace of generations of bombers and war machines. Maddie falls in love with Brooks, Leslie's and Jules' son, and that love feels as urgent to Maddie as the questions abo