The Summer Club: A Novel

Hannah McKinnon returns with a novel set at Mayhaven, an exclusive beach club in Massachusetts nestled between cedars and a spring-fed lake. Darcy Birch is spending the summer there as a camp counselor, but her experience is complicated by her hovering mother, her father's role as club president, and her neurodivergent brother's struggle for independence. When Flick Creevy and his family arrive as new neighbors—parking an RV and bringing late-night music and marijuana smoke to the Birches' yard—tensions rise. Flick takes a job at Mayhaven at his mother's urging, and his presence exposes the club's unspoken divisions. Despite Mayhaven's reputation as an inclusive association of good New England families, a clear boundary exists between insiders and outsiders. As summer intensifies, club members must navigate questions of family, class, belonging, and secrets in this novel about the friction between exclusivity and change.