by Lauren Fox
First published 2015
Isabel Moore's life crumbles within twelve months. Her husband Mark moves into his own apartment. Her ten-year-old daughter turns moody and stops sleeping. Her best friend Josie dies in a car crash, alone on a dark road. Isabel had thought she understood Josie completely. Josie was wild, generous, impulsive, always ready with a joke or a secret. But as Isabel sorts through the wreckage of her friend's final months, she discovers how much Josie had hidden from her. The friendship Isabel treasured was more fragile than she knew. Now she must navigate her daughter's anger, her husband's absence, and her own grief. She begins to see how small changes can destroy everything familiar. Yet in the midst of loss, Isabel finds herself opening to unexpected connections. She learns that love can arrive in forms she never anticipated.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
256 pages · Hardcover · Knopf
Content warnings: death