A Week of this A Novel in Seven Days

Brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest, this novel follow the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce in this novel full of barbed dialogue and hilarious, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics.