An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets,
joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the
course of an American family’s two-week stay in
Mallorca.
For the Posts, a two-week trip to
the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family
and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing
their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter,
Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island,
its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also
promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in
Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the
course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new
humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface,
and ancient wounds are exacerbated.
This is a
story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and
those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down
and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately
hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma
Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the
midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered
yet whole.
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