The second entry in the Cabot books, this story is set a few years later than the first and focuses on Tommy's nephew Peter, who has just graduated from Harvard and doesn't know what to do with his life. His family (a very very very thinly veiled fictional version of the Kennedys) expects him to join his father on his presidential campaign before he heads to law school, but when Caleb Murphy, a classmate who has always avoided Peter, discovers he doesn't have enough money to get to LA from Boston, Peter offers to drive him there. And then the rest of the book is a pretty delightful roadtrip romance that blossoms between two frenemies who begin to reveal their true selves to each other over the course of nine days. It's a beautiful early 1960s travelogue as well as a romance, and it was just a real pleasure to read - a great summer romance to read while under a blanket or two in the middle of winter.
Grade: A
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