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  • Published: 9 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593474723
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00
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Serendipity

A Novel





Set in a single summer across three distinct weekends—weekends in which old friends rent a Fire Island share house called Serendipity—the story of one woman's clumsy but hopeful reentrance to the high school friend group (and sweetheart) she left behind when she chased her dreams from New York to Los Angeles and forgot to look back.

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This summer, will three weekends in a Fire Island share house be enough time for Maggie Monroe to fix her life, find love, and make sure she doesn’t lose her friends for good?

It’s been six years since Maggie followed her screenwriting dreams to Los Angeles and forgot to look back. But things in Hollywood didn’t go quite to plan. Now, twenty-five and suddenly home in New York, Maggie doesn’t know who she’s more anxious to see: her ex-boyfriend, Mac, or her ex–best friend, Liz.

For Liz, Maggie is the girl who abandoned her at the worst possible moment and an unwelcome surprise who could derail her perfect summer. Liz is recently engaged to her high school sweetheart, Cam, but Maggie’s arrival brings old wounds bubbling to the surface, exposing the cracks in Liz’s apparent happily ever after.

When Maggie accepts her former friends' unexpected invitation to join in their summer share house, a rental named Serendipity, she knows it’s the chance she needs to get her life back on track. For three weekends, Maggie, Liz, Cam, Mac, and their closest friends will take the ferry to Ocean Beach, Fire Island, for some sun-kissed bliss, if only they can avoid the drama of their past catching up to the present.

With the nostalgic flavor of a stack of sepia-toned Polaroids, and perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Jennifer Weiner, and Ann Brashares, this big-hearted, page-turning story delves deep into a complicated friend group as they navigate one messy yet magical midtwenties summer.

  • Published: 9 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593474723
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for Serendipity

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"Becky Chalsen's debut novel Kismet is the ultimate summer read. The Sharp sisters, Jo and Amy, are twins on the cusp of turning 30. Jo is about to marry the man of her dreams while Amy, her maid of honor already found hers. The twins future happiness is a lock until fate takes a turn and changes the course of their lives forever. Kismet is funny, poignant, and sexy with enough surprises to delight and enthrall beach readers everywhere."—Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone

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