Commentary Whether your vacation is in your backyard, on a sandy beach, or camping in a majestic national park, the summer read is as essential a part of your getaway as your sunscreen, fishing rod or road atlas. Americans crave tales of adventure, mystery, love, and tragedy as a summer rite of passage. The more noble prefer to dive into highbrow literature, but many are looking for that page-turner escapist novel that twists the emotions but ultimately lands the reader safely with an ending that delivers redemption. This is one of the few touchstones left in our culture in which you can still find elites, the middle class, and the working class all indulging at the same time, oftentimes reading the same book. It is also one of the few things in our culture that owes its success to word of mouth. First-time novelist Virginia Hume’s “Haven Point” has all …
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