![]() ![]() Despite her fear, Jessie demonstrates her maturity and tells her grandmother what happened. ![]() Jessie loses the necklace and faces the horror of having to tell her grandmother the truth. In a fit of anger later in the summer, Jessie steals this necklace from her grandmother’s room where Exalta had been keeping it for her to wear to a dinner. She is surprised when her generally prickly grandmother, Exalta, gives her a necklace that was given to Exalta by her late husband on their first anniversary. ![]() The family must learn to adjust to the changes or be destroyed.īetween the deployment of Jessica “Jessie” Levin’s brother Tiger and the yearly trek to Nantucket, Jessie did not have much of a celebration for her 13th birthday. Even summer at All’s Fair, the Nantucket home belonging to family matriarch Exalta Nichols, suffers. In Summer of ’69, a historical novel by Elin Hilderbrand, nothing is the same for the Levin/Foley family after Richard “Tiger” Foley is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. Little, Brown and Company, June 18, 2019. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Hilderbrand, Elin. ![]()
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