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Violence
Barely any
Some family-based conflict and a historical secret; no significant violence
Language
Some
Some strong language in a contemporary family register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult relationships across four perspectives; some frank content
Substance Use
Some
Social and heavier drinking across the family; a recurring theme
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of a parent's love on children who cannot measure up; secrets that reshape an entire family's history; adult siblings navigating failure
What this book is about
Marilyn and David Sorenson have been deeply, almost embarrassingly in love for forty years. Their four daughters — Wendy, Violet, Liza, and Grace — all navigate their own messy adult lives in the shadow of a love they could never quite replicate, for reasons they can barely articulate. When a secret from the past arrives in the form of a young man, the family's comfortable mythology begins to crack. Claire Lombardo's debut is a big, generous novel about what it means to grow up inside a love you don't understand — and what that love looks like when it isn't enough.
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adult content and frank language
themes of addiction and family dysfunction
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