by Emma Straub
First published 2014
The Posts - Franny, Jim, and their daughter - are celebrating thirty-five years of marriage and their daughter's high school graduation with a two-week trip to Mallorca. But as the family and their friends bask in the island's sun, simmering tensions soon boil over. Decades-old grievances resurface, new humiliations are experienced, and lifelong rivalries are rekindled. As the family's facade crumbles, they must confront the parts of themselves they've long tried to conceal.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, found-family
Setting: Majorca, Spain
256 pages · Hardcover · Wheeler Publishing