Told from alternating points of view/voices, this tale set in the hurricane-ridden Lowcountry of South Carolina recounts a family's struggle to deal with the conundrum that is life. Ashely, the daughter who is an artist with a Jacqueline Kennedy fixation, is in an abusive relationship with a state senator; Her brother Ivy is gay and lives in California with his partner. Maisie, the eighty year old grandmother, is living with her driver, a sixty-five year old who owns a lama farm. Liz, the mother, runs a nonprofit organization for battered women and children. Husband/father, Clayton, is involved in a New York affair that rocks the entire family. This book has something for everyone and is a delightful, insightful, and entertaining read.
"The gene pool is a mighty big place and...there's literally no lifeguard."
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