65 pages 2 hours read

Elin Hilderbrand

Summer of '69

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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Part 2, Chapters 29-32Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 2: “July 1969”

Part 2, Chapter 29 Summary: “Midnight Confessions”

Jessie figures out that Pick is Blair, Kirby, and Tiger’s half-brother. Shocked, Jessie asks Kate whether Exalta knows. Kate confesses that she might but that she doesn’t really share anything with Exalta and begins to cry. Kate explains how Lorraine sent a letter telling Kate that she was pregnant. Kate confronted Wilder, telling him that she’d contacted a lawyer and filed for divorce, which was a lie. Minutes later, Wilder pulled the trigger of his gun. Bill came from Nantucket to make it appear to be an accident, a fact they hid from David. Kate confesses that she has waited for years to be punished. Jessie feels sympathy for her mother having to keep these terrible thoughts of guilt to herself for 16 years.

When Jessie checks on Kate later, she seems happier, having revealed her secret. When David arrives, he notes how beautiful and mature Jessie seems and then has a private conversation with Kate. Exhausted by her mother’s story, Jessie falls asleep. She wakes up during the night, hungry, and makes her way to All’s Fair. She thinks she sees her parents watching Neil Armstrong land on the moon on TV but is surprised to realize that it’s actually Bill and Exalta.