A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK . INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph."-Alison Espach, author of The Wedding People "A delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out- loud funny. It's also profound."-J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The CliffsThe acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned.
If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry-and relate. Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Nick, and their daughter, Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky's widowed father, has moved in.
It all couldn't be more ridiculously normal .
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK . INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph."-Alison Espach, author of The Wedding People "A delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out- loud funny. It's also profound."-J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The CliffsThe acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned.
If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry-and relate. Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Nick, and their daughter, Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky's widowed father, has moved in.
It all couldn't be more ridiculously normal .