Fic­tion

Songs of Summer

  • From the Publisher
September 1, 2024

In Songs of Sum­mer, thir­ty-year-old record shop own­er Mag­gie Mae Wheel­er books a trip to Fire Island to crash the season’s biggest wed­ding in search of her bio­log­i­cal moth­er. But along the way, she also hap­pens to find some small-town dra­ma, an iden­ti­ty cri­sis, and even romance of her own. 

Mag­gie is about to be engaged to her child­hood best friend. But when she dis­cov­ers her bio­log­i­cal moth­er (and her Jew­ish her­itage) via a geneal­o­gy web­site, she begins to ques­tion every­thing she thought she want­ed for her life. 

Her search takes her to dreamy Fire Island, where her birth moth­er is a guest at a Jew­ish wed­ding. As Mag­gie spies on her bio­log­i­cal fam­i­ly, she’s caught between div­ing into their chaot­ic lives and return­ing to her com­fort­able world. And then a charm­ing local makes her an offer to crash the wed­ding as his (fake) date. 

Swept away by the island’s mag­ic, the thrill of a fake beau, and a slew of per­fect­ly timed love songs, Mag­gie must fig­ure out where her heart tru­ly lies.

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