I always say that my job is to give the reader exactly the same thing every year, completely differently, and that's what's so hard because there are elements, I think, that my readers want. Beyond it being the right time for a Hopkins book, after 20 years of beach reads, how do you keep your storytelling and characters fresh? 28 Summers is set in Roland Park, New York City, Washington, D.C., and only partly on an island getaway. So I would go save the bar seats at PJ's, and that was my job in college. I'd go to PJ's and save all the seats after we were done studying. I was a Writing Seminars major, and my friends were like and biomedical engineering and these super hard majors, and we would always go to the bar. It was so iconic for so many years for generations of Hopkins people. I don't force things and I really felt like that was the right match. Let's just say I was sort of waiting for the right time. I just absolutely loved it there, loved every second of it. What made this the time for a story based on Hopkins connections? From PJ's Pub to lacrosse heroes Petro and Wilkie, there are a lot of Homewood Easter eggs in 28 Summers. Virgin Islands was extended because of COVID-19-to talk about her Hopkins pride, her next act, and what's on her summer reading list. Johns Hopkins Magazine caught up with Hilderbrand-whose annual writing retreat on St. Inspired by the play-turned-movie Same Time Next Year, Hilderbrand tells the story of star-crossed lovers-a Fiji who falls for his fraternity brother's younger sister-who break away from their everyday lives once a year to reunite on Nantucket over Labor Day weekend. It's a safe bet that Hilderbrand's 25th book will be another fan favorite when it is published June 16, especially among her fellow Homewood campus alumni: 28 Summers is the first of the Writing Seminars major's beachy escapes to feature characters who are Hopkins grads. Her 23rd book, Summer of '69, debuted at the top of the list in June 2019. She has landed on the Times list with every book since Barefoot in 2007, and she has written two books a year since 2014. It's also an escape-I thought an escape was important last month or two months ago, or at Christmas or whatever. "So as far as my reach, I feel very happy with the term 'beach read' because I feel like it gets into a lot of hands. "I think maybe people think that I would prefer being a really literary novelist, but I love being a novelist that has a lot of readers and a lot of different kinds of readers," Hilderbrand says in an April interview.
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