First published 2023
Lynette carries the weight of her family on her shoulders. She cares for her disabled brother while juggling work and studies, pushing through exhaustion that threatens to break her. Her dream keeps her going: buying the small house on Portland's outskirts where her family lives. After years of sacrifice, homeownership feels within reach. It represents the only path to a stable future she can see. When her carefully laid plans crumble, Lynette faces a crisis. She launches into a frantic two-day journey across a city driven by greed and ambition. The clock ticks as she scrambles to salvage everything she has worked toward. Portland becomes both backdrop and obstacle as Lynette navigates a landscape that seems designed to crush working families like hers. Her struggle embodies the fight for dignity and security in a world that offers little of either to people like her.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, social-commentary
Setting: Portland
Period: contemporary
288 pages · Paperback · Seix Barral
Content warnings: depression, mental-illness