First published 2013
A recently retired patriarch vanishes during a scorching summer in 1976. His three estranged children rush to their mother's home, tracking clues to an ancestral village in Ireland where they uncover family secrets. The emotional ties that bind and divide this fractured family are laid bare as they confront the past and search for their missing father.
Genres: family, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: fractured-family, search-for-missing-person
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
336 pages · Paperback · Vintage