When Flossy Merrill summons her children to the beloved family beach house to celebrate their fathers eightieth birthday, both cherished memories and long-kept secrets come to light in this charming and lyrical novel from the author ofThe Lake SeasonandMystic Summer.

Flossy Merrill has managed tosomewhat begrudginglygather her three ungrateful grown children from their dysfunctional lives for a summer reunion at the familys Rhode Island beach house. Clementine, her youngest child and a young mother of two small children, has caused Flossy the most worry after enduring a tragically life-altering year. But Samuel and his partner Evan are not far behind in their ability to alarm: their prospective adoption search has just taken a heart-wrenching turn. Only Paige, the eldest of the headstrong Merrill clan, is her usual self: arriving precisely on time with her well-adapted teens. Little does her family know that she,