First published 2016
In postwar Brooklyn, the troubled David Nowak flees his family's high expectations. Years later, he and his wife Daisy carve out an isolated life in the California wilderness for their two children. But the looming specter of their parents' mental instability threatens to shatter the family's fragile peace.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, 20th-century, psychological-thriller, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Brooklyn, California
Period: Postwar
286 pages · Paperback · The Unnamed Press
Content warnings: mental-illness