Come Monday, summer will be over, and you’ll have to put away those white linen pants, and that little skirt with the whales one it. Or will you…? Thanks to the magical world of books, you might be able stave off fall responsibilities a little while longer. That Night, Alice McDermott’s 1987, involves two star-crossed lovers and a 60s Long Island summer. Told from the perspective of a ten year old neighbor, the reader meets Rick and Sheryl, follows them through their courtship, an unplanned pregnancy and what reviewer Alice Leccese Powers calls, “serio-comic rescue attempt gone awry”.

“In That Night,” Powers writes. “McDermott lovingly bares the suburban soul — no, she bares the American soul — hidden behind metal Venetian blinds and crisply manicured hedges. In the end we glimpse her characters - the lovers and the child narrator — all grown and transformed by one summer night. That Night.”

Intriguing, no?

Read the full NPR review, and an excerpt of the story here.