Effie and Henry are in Cape May for their honeymoon. What begins as a sweet story about a newlywed couple discovering each other becomes something entirely different. After a few days virtually alone the house down the street is having a party. Clara, someone that once bullied Effie when she was younger, is throwing a party for her brother. Effie and Henry stay and hang out and then when the party is over Clara, Max, and Alma stay a little longer. The five begin to drink, swim, and hang out for days. Then there's all the sex. I think that's what surprised me the most about the book. It was hard to remember this was set in the late 1950s with all the sex. By the end of the book I literally hated every single character. Overall though the book was well written, but all the graphic sex was just unexpected for me.