If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cryand relate.)

Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who’s back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rockys widowed father, has moved in.

It all couldnt be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects themand with a medical condition that, she hopes, wont affect them at all.

With her signature wit and wisdom, Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that peopleno matter how much you love themare not always exactly who you want them to be.