Glass Bottle Season

Featured in The Best Summer Beach Reads From Rhody Authors byRhode Island Monthly (July 2023)Summertime on Rhode Islands luxurious Aquidneck Island.A middle-class Cuban Americanfreshly graduated from collegereckons with his fragile standing among the wealthy community in which he was raised, from which he might be cast out before the summer ends.Raymond Wilson-Domingo has never felt entirely comfortable among the elitist crowd of Newports old-money aristocracypartly because he's Cuban, partly because of his modest upbringing in the citys undesirable Fifth Ward neighborhood.But this summer, worlds collide, casting the differences between Ray and his peers in high relief. From his job at a boutique wine shop to a misguided plan to become a lawyer to a doomed romance with the doyenne of Newport, Ray may be in for more than hes bargained for. And lets not forget the impending Campbell-Doheny wedding and all the money, gossip, and drama that surrounds it.Ray would do anything to cement his place among New Englands most elite social circles, but will it ever be enough?