The Summer We Read Gatsby is Danielle Ganek's second novel. I haven't read her first one, but since Summer was pretty good, and I'm now thinking about trying out her debut novel. Ganek writes long chapters which is something I don't appreciate because of the way I read a book. However, after the first few chapters, the chapters and the book go very quickly once you get caught up its fictional world. This is largely due to the witty writing and the vivid characters as well as the bits of mysterious intrigue about a 'thing of utmost value,' a stolen painting, and a gorgeous house guest with a strange, murky past who refuses to leave. Peck and Cassie's beloved Aunt Lydia, the last of their paternal relatives, has died. Lydia's will bequeaths her summer home in the Hamptons and all its contents to her nieces with specific instructions to spend a final month in the house during which Lydia hopes that they'll find something of utmost value before ...
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