Immediate Family: A Novel

A goop Book Club Selection and Best Book of the Year

“This unsparing and absorbing family portrait broke my heart and remade it a hundred times over.”—Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin

It is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them, her brother, Danny, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with...