This beach book is the kind of quick, absorbing read that goes down as easily as a glass of iced lemonade (double sugar) after a day in the sun. But that’s not to say author Jan Goldstein doesn’t try to insert some serious issues into the bathos. At book signings, Goldstein has learned that the novel resonates with readers whose lives have been touched by Alzheimer’s and those raising teen-agers, he says.
“Many people who come are moms and wives who are caught between the crunch of taking care of a parent or taking care of a teenager,” Goldstein says.
His protagonist does both while campaigning for a U.S. Senate seat from California. In the waning days of his primary campaign, candidate Teddy Mathison is summoned to his boyhood home on Nantucket, where his estranged mother, Kate, is dying from Alzheimer’s disease. Worse, Mathison is forced to take along his sullen teenage daughter, Zoe, who despises her father for abandoning her.

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