Great by Sara Benincasa (2014)
A teenage girl spends a summer in the Hamptons and gets caught up in a scandal.
Put the novel in a modern Hamptons summer among the children of the rich, and tell it from the girl who is new there.
You read YA, and you want the Hamptons version.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the summer, the rich neighbours and the scandal that ends it.
Changes: the time, the age and the narrator: Naomi Rye, a teenager spending the summer with her socialite mother.
Naomi Rye spends the summer in the Hamptons with her socialite mother, among the sons and daughters of her mother’s set, and is drawn into a scandal.
Whose story is it?
Naomi’s.
How much time does it ask?
272 pages in HarperCollins’ hardcover.
HarperCollins: a contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby set in a Hamptons social circle.
Where to find it
Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Hardcover — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into West Egg: The Scribner paperback (“The Only Authorized Edition”) · The Penguin Classics edition, introduction by Min Jin Lee · The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Alworth