Brews and Bestsellers Book Club: "Summer Crossing" by Truman Capote

Join our librarian, Colette for a discussion at Franco Martini Bar & Restaurant, 2025 Albany Post Road, Croton 10520.  The library will supply snacks for the group, but attendees are responsible for their drink of choice.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY BE MEETING ON MONDAY IN AUGUST.

“Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World

“A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York.”—New York

A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.

Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she’s been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.

Please register on the library's Web site if you plan to attend & notify us if you cancel.