
A NEW YORKER AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. "A sweeping family epic that took me from...

A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last...
