Everything Is a Little Broken

Aging is hard, but watching those you love get older isn’t much easier.

When Leonard Cohen sang, “There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in,” he might have been describing the Frank and Cayne families in Rebecca Sugar’s poignant, touching, funny, and profound debut novel.

EVERYTHING IS A LITTLE BROKEN invites readers to both laugh and cry at some of the painful, heart-wrenching and absurd moments Mira Cayne and her father, Matt Frank, experience as age and infirmit...