{"id":13851,"date":"2025-06-15T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13851"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:11:57","slug":"tc-best-reads-of-summer-2025-w-next-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/15\/tc-best-reads-of-summer-2025-w-next-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"T&amp;C: Best Reads of Summer 2025 w\/ NEXT TO HEAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/leisure\/arts-and-culture\/a64715331\/best-summer-books-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Town and Country<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The 46 Must-Read Books of Summer 2025<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Buzzy novels, compulsively readable memoirs, and a few guilty pleasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/author\/440454\/dorothy-scarborough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/author\/237784\/emily-burack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EMILY BURACK<\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/author\/16472\/adam-rathe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADAM RATHE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DKPHX5B7?linkCode=ogi&amp;tag=townandcountry_auto-append-20&amp;ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C10067.a.64715331%5Bsrc%7Cwww.google.com%5Bch%7C%5Blt%7Csale%5Bpid%7C35f14bdb-6934-4782-ab2f-8eb61ca3e7c1%5Baxid%7C8d5c3724-e5a2-407e-8850-e6cb9e508096%5Bofsxid%7Cjam_ab_direct_to_checkout%5Bofsvid%7Cstandard_blocker\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"product-image-link ebgq4gw0 e1b8bpvs0 css-iu7x6j e1c1bym14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DKPHX5B7?linkCode=ogi&amp;tag=townandcountry_auto-append-20&amp;ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C10067.a.64715331%5Bsrc%7Cwww.google.com%5Bch%7C%5Blt%7Csale%5Bpid%7C35f14bdb-6934-4782-ab2f-8eb61ca3e7c1%5Baxid%7C8d5c3724-e5a2-407e-8850-e6cb9e508096%5Bofsxid%7Cjam_ab_direct_to_checkout%5Bofsvid%7Cstandard_blocker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/vader-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/product-images\/67d43f87-a064-4e37-bead-66ceb434c662\/5aa4d96d-3749-4700-8a9f-a412ac135cbf.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;0xw,0xh&amp;resize=980:*\" alt=\"Next To Heaven\" title=\"Next To Heaven\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next To Heaven<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DKPHX5B7?linkCode=ogi&amp;tag=townandcountry_auto-append-20&amp;ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C10067.a.64715331%5Bsrc%7Cwww.google.com%5Bch%7C%5Blt%7Csale%5Bpid%7C35f14bdb-6934-4782-ab2f-8eb61ca3e7c1%5Baxid%7C959f0137-c1c2-4421-a70f-6e7bb902f5c6%5Bofsxid%7Cjam_ab_direct_to_checkout%5Bofsvid%7Cstandard_blocker\">SHOP AT AMAZON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s as tale as old as time: dark secrets lurk behind artfully cultivated hedge roses. In James Frey\u2019s latest novel,&nbsp;<em>Next to Heaven,&nbsp;<\/em>four couples in the wealthy enclave of New Bethlehem, Conn. (a fictionalized New Haven) find their lives upended after a&nbsp;<em>swinging<\/em>&nbsp;shindig held by local queen bees Devon McCallister and Belle Hedges Moore goes awry. As mysteries unfold, romances begin and end, and fortunes are made and lost, there\u2019s only one possible conclusion: someone has been pulling the strings the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/leisure\/arts-and-culture\/a64715331\/best-summer-books-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Town and Country Magazine<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town and Country The 46 Must-Read Books of Summer 2025 Buzzy novels, compulsively readable memoirs, and a few guilty pleasures. BY\u00a0DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH,\u00a0EMILY BURACK\u00a0AND\u00a0ADAM RATHE Next To Heaven SHOP AT AMAZON It\u2019s as tale as old as time: dark secrets lurk behind artfully cultivated hedge roses. In James Frey\u2019s latest novel,&nbsp;Next to Heaven,&nbsp;four couples in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}