The book opens in 1999 and a now 37-year-old Jackie comes from her dank basement in Boston where she has retreated from the sunshine and freedom of her own summer of love and heartbreak to tie up the legacy of a place and its place in her life.Īmy Mason Doan does a wonderful job of keeping the reader turning the page. … a wonderful job of keeping the reader turning the page.īut, first, she must deal with the estate and its legacy as a musical nirvana and the events that took her from bliss to devastation in the span of one summer. She returns to the place of her greatest happiness and greatest heartbreak, to sort and organize and pass the place on to someone new. Twenty years later Jackie is back, having inherited the property when her aunt died. She lands in a paradise of unstructured freedom at her famous uncle’s compound in the beautiful and rough terrain overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Since her mother died at her birth, Jackie never got to know her uncle and his family. She gets to leave behind a highly structured and upper-class life when her father and his new wife take an extended honeymoon. Jackie Pierce, nicknamed Lady Sunshine by her music icon uncle, is granted a summer break when she is 17. Not everyone gets to have two second starts in life.
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