In Gabriella Burnham's 'Wait,' a glimpse of the grittier side of summer on Nantucket
Nantucket is a summer paradise, and it's also a real place where people work hard to serve the tourist trade. In this novel, we see both worlds, mostly from the point of view of Elise, a 22-year-old Nantucket native whose Brazilian mother has just been deported.
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