Emma Rosenblum’s Bad Summer People invites us to holiday with New York’s super wealthy – and very badly behaved – elite
Imagine the cast of White Lotus crossed with the cast of Gossip Girl when they’re all grown up? Welcome to the book of, which is set in Fire Island, an exclusive beach community just outside of New York City, where the city’s 1% go on holiday, play tennis, have affairs…and all with a mysterious murder thrown in for good measure.
We meet Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker, two beautiful and privileged New Yorkers who holiday on Fire Island every summer with their families, including their husbands Sam and Jason who have been best friends since childhood. ‘I spent almost every summer on Fire Island,’ author Emma Rosenblum tells Grazia. ‘I was out there recently with my children for the whole of the summer and I felt like the town, which is so insular, so special, and so strange, was a great setting for a novel. A claustrophobic little town where everybody knows everybody else’s business is the perfect place for a combustible murder mystery.’
‘I remember one time listening to a conversation with somebody who was renovating their brownstone – and brownstones in New York City sell for around $30 million remember – and they were explaining how hard and stressful it was that their new stove was delayed. These people take themselves so seriously, from the way they talk about their kid’s schools, to their nannies, and their tennis.
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