Loved this book

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After Cape May, I will read ANYTHING that Chip Cheek writes. I could not put it down. Not only does he develop his characters fully (and they are complex and multi-dementional, he transports his reader to the 1950s off-season in Cape May, New Jersey. I felt like I was there with Henry, Effie, Clara, Max and Alma drinking gin and tonics. The story centers around a newlywed young couple, Effie and Henry, who come to Cape May for their honeymoon; they intend to cut their trip short and end up staying longer after they meet some new friends. Effie and Henry are so young and, although they have known each other their whole lives, their relationship is new and undeveloped. The situations that they find them in challenge them to examine who they are and who they want to be. I don't want to give anything away, so it is a bit difficult to explain the plot. What I will say is that while you can see what is coming (no huge plot twists, in my opinion), Chip Cheek's writing is so beautiful that it doesn't matter. This is one of those rare books where I didn't love any one character (they are all flawed and I actually wanted to shake sense into them), but I was still attached to each of them and invested in their story. Five Stars.