Friendships, conflicts, secrets and epiphanies blossomed within this tightly woven friend group and came to define how they would live out the rest of their twenties and beyond.īlending the sand-strewn milieu of George Howe Colt's The Big House, the radiant aching of Olivia Liang's The Lonely City, OUT EAST is a keenly wrought story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, The Hive was a center of gravity, a port of call, a home. 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 27, 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 Entertainment Weekly Best Book of May 2019 A TIME Magazine Best Book of May 2019Ī Cosmopolitan Best Book of May 2019 An Oprah Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019Ī 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.

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