Susan Coll - Beach Week - Westhampton Beach
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.
With the wit of Nora Ephron and the insight of Tom Perrotta, Susan
Coll satirizes a new teenage rite of passage, in the process dismantling
the lives of families in transition. Beach Week Ferrar, Straus, Giroux, $25) is a hilarious, well-observed look at the end of childhood and the human need to commemorate it—expensively. 6pm
- Street:
- Books & Books
- Additional:
- 130 Main St.
- City:
- Westhampton Beach ,
- Province:
- Postal Code:
- 11978
