“A prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment.” —Dwight Garner, *The New York Times In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is* trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they’re living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They’re family, but they think they’re strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what do people who think they’ve got nothing in common have in common?
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“A prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment.”
—Dwight Garner, *The New York Times
In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is* trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they’re living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They’re family, but they think they’re strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what do people who think they’ve got nothing in common have in common?
Summer.