The best-selling writer’s latest novel features a protagonist in loose-fitting linen.
And she wouldn’t have it any other way.
As a woman who is neither young nor thin, these aesthetics are hardly ever for me.
‘The Summer Place,’ by Jennifer Weiner.Atria Books
Too dreary.Manic Pixie Dream girl?
I speak, of course, of theCoastal Grandmother, the Internet’s current It Girl.
It’s the homemade pesto that she prepared and froze, portioned in ice-cube trays, last summer).
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in 2003’s ‘Something’s Gotta Give’.Everett Collection
A Coastal Grandmother knows what she likes, and won’t waste her time on what she doesn’t.
She’s not stressed out over wrinkles, extra pounds, or gray hair.
of wine in the refrigerator, and an early bedtime on your agenda, you’re halfway there.
I’ve been preparing to be a Coastal Grandmother for my entire adult life.
I adore linen and have spent many a summer on Cape Cod.
I love to cook, and I’m never happier than when I’m in bed with a book.
She tends to her children and grandchildren and step-grandchildren while keeping her own secrets concealed.
