The Nest

A heat, humorous and acutely perceptive debut novel about 4 grownup siblings and the destiny of the shared inheritance that has formed their selections and their lives.

Each household has its issues. However even among the many most troubled, the Plumb household stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions lastly attain a breaking level on an unseasonably chilly afternoon in New York Metropolis as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb collect to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly launched from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo acquired behind the wheel of a automotive with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The following accident has endangered the Plumbs’ joint belief fund, “The Nest,” which they’re months away from lastly receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life complement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s worth soar together with the inventory market and have been relying on the cash to unravel a variety of self-inflicted issues.

Melody, a spouse and mom in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming faculty tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques seller, has secretly borrowed in opposition to the seaside cottage he shares along with his husband, Walker, to maintain his retailer open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story author, simply can’t appear to complete her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the individuals they love? Or will everybody have to reimagine the futures they’ve envisioned? Introduced collectively as by no means earlier than, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice should grapple with previous resentments, present-day truths, and the numerous emotional and monetary toll of the accident, in addition to lastly acknowledge the alternatives they’ve made in their very own lives.

This can be a story in regards to the energy of household, the chances of friendship, the methods we rely upon each other and the methods we let each other down. On this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney brings a outstanding forged of characters to life to light up what cash does to relationships, what occurs to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught but unbreakable ties we share with these we love.