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<b>An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of May 2019</b><b>A TIME Magazine Best Book of May 2019 <br></b><b>A Cosmopolitan Best Book of May 2019</b><b>An Oprah Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019 </b><b><br></b><b>A gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house--a </b><b>debut </b><b>memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family.</b><i><br></i>They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a hill, and each summer thirty one people would sleep between its thin walls and shag carpets. Against the moonlight the house's octagonal roof resembled a bee's nest. It was dubbed The Hive.<br>In 2013, John Glynn joined the share house. Packing his duffel for that first Memorial Day Weekend, he prayed for clarity. At 27, he was crippled by an all-encompassing loneliness, a feeling he had carried in his heart for as long as he could remember. John didn't understand the loneliness. He just knew it was there. Like the moon gone dark.<br><br>OUT EAST is the portrait of a summer, of the Hive and the people who lived in it, and John's own reckoning with a half-formed sense of self. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, The Hive was a center of gravity, a port of call, a home. Friendships, conflicts, secrets and epiphanies blossomed within this tightly woven friend group and came to define how they would live out the rest of their twenties and beyond. <br>Blending the sand-strewn milieu of George Howe Colt's <i>The Big House</i>, the radiant aching of Olivia Liang's <i>The Lonely City</i>, OUT EAST is a keenly wrought story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment.<br> <br><b>"An unforgettable story told with feeling and humor and above all with the razor-sharp skill of a delicate and highly gifted writer." --Andre Aciman, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Call Me by Your Name</i></b><b><i><br></i></b><b>"<i>Out East<