Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understands. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common.
Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. They hardly ever venture far from home, but in some ways they have never been further apart.
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. A major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author - a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today.
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