American Saturday: Book News - Beach Week by Susan Coll

Posted By Danielle on May 15th, 2010

We’ve really enjoyed bringing Danielle on board with our site, and so we’ve decided to introduce American Saturdays. Danielle will bring us news from over the pond about the latest chick lit releases, as well as her usual reviews of new books. Enjoy!

The first book is called Beach Week by Susan Coll. The cover looks really fun, and it’s due out in the US on May 25th. It sounds like a fun read, so do hunt out a copy if you like the sound of it! Here’s the synopsis:

Ah, “beach week”: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs’ latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile, their misguided, affluent parents are too busy worrying about legal liabilities to fret over some missing pills or random hookups.


For Jordan Adler and her family, though, this rite of passage threatens to become more than just frivolous fun. The teen’s parents, Leah and Charles, might not let their only child go at all. Their marriage is in shambles, their old house is languishing on the market, and the bills are stacking up. With all that stress, it soon seems they’re behaving as irresponsibly as their daughter and her friends.

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