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Book Discussion at Calvert Pines Senior Center

"The Hotel Nantucket" by Elin Hilderbrand

Ah, summer in Nantucket: lobster rolls, whale watching, and...high-stakes hotel renovation? Come discuss a summer read that follows the titular Hotel Nantucket from tragedy in the Roaring '20s to its rebirth in the age of online influencers. Filled with her signature depth and multiple view points, Hilderbrand serves up a delicious chowder with something for everyone in each bite.

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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. With Grace gleefully haunting the halls, a staff harboring all kinds of secrets, and Lizbet’s own romantic uncertainty, is the Hotel Nantucket destined for success or doom?  

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