’s new novel about a young woman named Alex who drifts from house to house, party to party, after being kicked out by her boyfriend, Simon, a bland business type in his 50s who can’t so much as tolerate it when Alex corrects his swim stroke. The book has been a weekly best seller at BookHampton in East Hampton for the past month and a half. You can see its electric-green cover resting beside $200 Sunflow beach chairs.
Early on, Alex is shocked by the “bags unattended on towels,” the wallets and shoes left out while their owners go for a swim. One woman I spoke to, who describes herself as a “Hamptons newbie,” used to worry about whether she should lock her bike up in town until it started to seem absurd: “People here steal companies and sometimes wives,” she says, “not bikes.
Everyone knew some version of an Alex, too. There are the drunk influencers, the pop-up networkers. But Jan, a longtime resident, says she sees another type she calls the “This was your life, but it’s not anymore” hanger-on. They’re the people who kept their six-figure annual private-club memberships even after losing the Hamptons house in a divorce or after a bad few years at the firm. “There’s one couple that take only day trips and spend all their time at their club.
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