With the warmer months creeping in, the hunt for the perfect beach read is on—and Jenna Bush Hager may have just found the one.
Shortly after announcing her May book club pick, the Today co-host took to social media to praise another novel that she's calling "the book of the summer."
"JUNE BABY, the stunning novel @elinhilderbrand called “the book of the summer,” is out everywhere today!!" she began in her caption, referencingElin Hilderbrand, an American author who specializes in beach reads.
"June Baby," written by Shannon Garvey, is praised for writing what Bush Hager calls "the perfect beach read."
"Transportive, tender, and reflective, it’s exactly the kind of novel you’ll want to sink into this summer," she continued in the caption, alongside photos of herself posing with Garvey during her visit to the morning show.
"Set over the course of one transformative summer on Block Island, JUNE BABY follows Ruth, a young woman reeling from the death of her mother. Her father, not knowing how to handle her grief, sends her off to the island to find a woman she’s never met, a woman who knew her mother. Block Island becomes the place Ruth orbits her whole year around, returning every June. And of course, like every great beach read, there’s a love story at the heart…" Bush Hager's caption concludes.
View this post on InstagramGarvey's debut novel was officially available for your reading pleasure on May 12, 2026 from Hager's Thousand Voices, a publishing imprint launched in partnership with Random House Publishing Group.
The goal of Bush Hager's imprint is to publish books from debut and diverse writers whose work might otherwise be overlooked in the highly competitive and political landscape of the publishing business.
As for Garvey's novel, she told the network of the main character Ruth, “She’s really raw and in the pits of grief, and her father is unable to handle that, so he ships her off to Block Island to work as an assistant for an artist named Diana. We get a brief glimpse of how important this place and those people are going to be to her."
Garvey also revealed she previously took a job as a housekeeper at an inn on Block Island, which is where she finished the second draft of the novel, noting that her experience "really deepened the book."
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