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Sunny Hostin

Biography

Sunny Hostin

Sunny Hostin is a three-time Emmy-winning legal journalist, cohost of "The View," and author of the New York Times bestseller SUMMER ON THE BLUFFS, as well as I AM THESE TRUTHS: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds.

Hostin has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Woman, Essence, Newsweek, The New York Post, Latina and Ebony. A sought-after public speaker, she has delivered a TEDxTalk called “A Possibility Model” and spoken at and moderated panels for the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Corporate Counsel Women of Color, and the National Bar Association, and served as a witness at the Federal Judiciary’s Congressional Hearing for the Public’s Right of Access to the Courts.

Hostin lives with her husband and two children in New York.

Books by Sunny Hostin

by Sunny Hostin - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Inside Highland Beach, the oldest Black resort community in America, 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.

by Sunny Hostin - Fiction, Women's Fiction

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. Against the odds, Olivia Jones has blazed her own enviable career path and built her name in the finance world. Mourning both the loss and 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 who was unjustly killed. 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. As the summer stretches on, each relationship teaches her more about who she really is.