by Tracey Lange
First published 2021
Sunday Brennan opens her eyes in a Los Angeles hospital room, her body broken from the drunk driving accident she caused. At twenty-nine, she has nowhere left to run. She returns to New York and the Irish Catholic family she abandoned five years earlier without explanation. Her brothers resent her departure. Her former fiancé keeps his distance. Sunday tries to rebuild her life while navigating the tension her return creates. She discovers her family needs her as desperately as she needs them. A threatening figure from her past pushes the family pub toward bankruptcy. Sunday realizes that protecting her family means exposing the secrets that have poisoned the Brennans for generations. These revelations will shatter everything they believe about their lives. The family must face their painful mistakes and find a path forward together.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Los Angeles, New York
Period: 21st-century
274 pages · Hardcover · Celadon Books