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This book moves back and forth in time, showcasing secrets and consequences. This book showcases old money, racism, glamour, status, opulence, limelight, privilege, power, choices, inequality, and the economic divide. Each generation showcases the mindset of not only the family but society at large. With each new generation comes acceptance, awareness, growth, and change. But is it enough? Time changes, society changes, the beliefs of society changes, but seriously is it enough?

What happens to a family that has it all and over time becomes a family desperately trying to hold on to it. When a family feels their privilege but doesn’t want to lose it. The family home (ahem, island) has been handed down, but so has elitism, racism, and antisemitism. What happens when change occurs? What happens when you look back at your heritage? What happens when you learn certain truths about your family? What happens when secrets come out? Get The Guest Book by Sarah Blake below and find out.

The Guest Book by Sarah Blake Book Summary

An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.

The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that “used to run the world”.

And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything—perfect children, good looks, a love everyone envies. But after a tragedy befalls them, Ogden tries to bring Kitty back to life by purchasing an island in Maine. That island, and its house, come to define and burnish the Milton family, year after year after year. And it is there that Kitty issues a refusal that will haunt her till the day she dies.

In 1959 a young Jewish man, Len Levy, will get a job in Ogden’s bank and earn the admiration of Ogden and one of his daughters, but the scorn of everyone else. Len’s best friend Reg Pauling has always been the only black man in the room—at Harvard, at work, and finally at the Miltons’ island in Maine.

An island that, at the dawn of the 21st century, this last generation doesn’t have the money to keep. When Kitty’s granddaughter hears that she and her cousins might be forced to sell it, and when her husband brings back disturbing evidence about her grandfather’s past, she realizes she is on the verge of finally understanding the sile

The Guest Book by Sarah Blake PDF Book Details

Book Title: The Guest Book: A Novel
Previous Books: None
Author: Sarah Blake
Publish Date: May 7, 2019
ISBN: 1250110254
Formats: PDF, ePub
Size: 2 MB
Pages: 496
Genre: World War II Historical Fiction, Jewish Historical Fiction, Family Saga Fiction,
File Status: Available for Download
Price: Free