Still Summer Nights

Still Summer Nights

Author: Lillian Empire Listening Length: 7h 46m

In the quiet, stifling embrace of a 1950s small town, one young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Meet Paul Wells, a nerdy nineteen-year-old, who lives with his aunt, and finds solace between the pages of Les Misérables. But when he sets his sights on handsome, enigmatic neighbor, Asher Holdren, Pauls aimles...

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CHAPTER ONE

Paul

I WAS TIRED of listening to Eisenhower on the radio, his enunciated vowels, clipped consonants, and the way he says the year nineteen-hundred-and-fifty-eight as if he might be counting change from his pockets.

If I were truthful in all things, I’d say the reason I came outside with my book was to wait. But I am not truthful in all things.