Bøker av Sunny Hostin

The View cohost, three-time Emmy Award winner, and New York Times bestselling author Sunny Hostin transports readers to the sun, sand, and sea of Highland Beach. Highland Beach, along the Chesapeake Bay, was founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass and is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones's legacy. But Oliva's legacy comes with thorns-intertwined are secrets of her aunt's death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or anything that will interfere with her son's political career; and a father who wants to rebuild the family he rejected decades ago. In the midst of tense family drama, Olivia must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor-with the neighbors and wonderful man who've become central to her happiness-or finally achieve her dream of having a family and home to call her own in Highland Beach. In this awakening, spirited novel, Sunny Hostin celebrates family, friendship, and community and reminds us of the importance of the legacies of our collective past and finding one's way in the world.

New York Times Bestseller!The View cohost and New York Times bestselling author Sunny Hostin dazzles with this brilliant novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard.Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive Black beach community in the country. Known for its gingerbread Victorian-style houses and modern architectural marvels, this picturesque town hugging the sea is a mecca for the crème de la crème of Black society?where Michelle and Barack Obama vacation and Meghan Markle has shopped for a house for her mom. Black people have lived in this pretty slip of the Vineyard since the 1600s and began buying property in the 1800s, making this posh town the embodiment of ?old money.?Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau. For decades, ?Ama? played host to American presidents, Wall Street titans, and cultural icons. But her favorite guests have always been her three ?goddaughters:? Esperanza ?Perry? Soto, a beautiful, talented Afro-Latina lawyer with Ama's strong, yet guarded personality; Olivia Jones, a gifted Wall Street analyst with Ama's brilliant, logical mind; and Billie Hayden, a gifted marine biologist and rule-breaker with Ama's courageous free spirit.Growing up, these three goddaughters from different backgrounds came together each summer at Chateau Laveau. As adults, the cottage is a place this trio of successful yet very different women go to escape, to slow down from their hectic lives, share private time with Ama, and enjoy the gorgeous weather, cool water, and stunning views Oak Bluffs offers. This summer on the Bluffs, however, will be different. An era is ending: Ama, now nearing seventy-one, is moving to the south of France to reunite with her college sweetheart. She has invited Perry, Olivia, and Billie to spend one last golden summer together with her the way they did when they were kids. And when fall comes, she is going to give the house to one of them.Each of the women wants the house desperately. Each is grappling with a secret she fears will hurt her and her chances. By the end of summer, old ties will fray, new bonds will be created, and these three found sisters will discover they aren't the only ones with something to hide. Ama has a few secrets of her own. What she has to give them is far more than property. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, she will tell these surrogate daughters she fiercely loves and protects everything they never knew they needed to know.

Following her New York Times bestseller Summer on the Bluffs, The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor for the compelling second novel in her acclaimed Summer series.In a hidden enclave in Sag Harbor, affectionately known as SANS?Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Nineveh?there's a close-knit community of African American elites who escape the city and enjoy the beautiful warm weather and beaches at their vacation homes. Since the 1930s, very few have known about this part of the Hamptons on Long Island, and the residents like it that way.That is, until real estate developers discover the hidden gem. And now, the residents must fight for the soul of SANS.Against the odds, Olivia Jones has blazed her own enviable career path and built her name in the finance world. But hidden behind the veneer of her success, there is a gaping hole. Mourning both the loss and the betrayal of Omar, a surrogate father to her and her two godsisters, Olivia is driven to solve the mystery of what happened to her biological father, a police officer unjustly killed when she was a little girl.Untethered from her life in New York City, Olivia moves to a summer home in Sag Harbor and begins forging a new community out in SANS. Friendships blossom with Kara, an ambitious art curator; and Whitney, the wife of an ex-basketball player and current president of the Sag Harbor Homeowners Association; and a sexy new neighbor and single father, Garrett, who makes her reconsider her engagement with Anderson. She also takes to a kind, older gentleman named Mr. Whittingham, but soon discovers he too is not without his own troubles.As the summer stretches on, each relationship teaches her more about who she really is. Though not without cost, Olivia's search for her authentic identity in the secret history of her family of origin and her fight to preserve her new Black utopia, will lead her to redefine the meaning of love, friendship, community, and family?and restore her faith in herself, her relationships, and her chosen path.

Sunny Hostin tiene una manera definida de ver las cosas.Como criatura del South Bronx, criada en sus destartalados edificios de vivienda pública, tiene mucho que decir sobre la pobreza. Como madre de un varón de raza negra, tiene opiniones firmes sobre la epidemia de violencia policial que está extinguiendo la vida de demasiados niños y hombres negros. Como mujer biracial, tiene una perspectiva privilegiada de la intersección de la identidad y el área gris que existe entre lo blanco y lo negro.Hostin es conocida por millones de personas como una de las coanfitrionas del laureado programa televisivo, “The View”, y como la experta ex fiscal que ofrece cuidadosos análisis de las decisiones más recientes del Tribunal Supremo, o de las intrigas legales del Departamento de Justicia bajo Donald Trump, o del juicio criminal más sensacional del momento para el noticiario ABC News y para el conocido show, “Good Morning America”. La periodista, ganadora en tres ocasiones del premio Emmy, fue analista legal en CNN durante cerca de una década antes de comenzar a trabajar en “The View” y la emisora ABC en 2016.Sin embargo, pocos televidentes saben que Hostin, quien fuera fiscal auxiliar para el Distrito de Columbia, es hija de una pareja de adolescentes; o que cuando tenía ocho años su familia abandonó para siempre el South Bronx porque un querido tío había sido asesinado a cuchillazos frente a sus ojos en el baño de una miserable vivienda.Tampoco saben que Hostin fue la primera reportera en recibir una llamada que avisaba del asesinato de un adolescente afroamericano de nombre Trayvon Martin a manos de un vigilante de vecindario cuando Trayvon regresaba a su casa a pie después de haber ido a una tienda; o que cuando ella les relató a sus productores lo que habría de convertirse en uno de los casos más infames de injusticia racial de nuestros tiempos, ellos respondieron que no les interesaba porque era “solo una historia local”.Con franqueza absoluta, SOY ESTAS VERDADES contará los pormenores del escarpado recorrido que llevó a Hostin desde St. Mary´s Park Houses en el Bronx a una exclusiva escuela para niñas en el Upper East Side y a los pasillos de los más altos tribunales de la nación, hasta llegar a los bien iluminados estudios de la emisora ABC.