AFamily Reunion

The book

Thirteen-year-old Danny Anderson’s mother is bound for San Francisco and a divorce. Danny is bound for Ohio, to grandparents he didn’t know he had.

She has one instruction for the summer: practice the violin half an hour every day. He leaves it on the baggage carousel in Cleveland.

What he wants is the answer to a question no one will touch — why did his mother erase her own family? What he finds is a kitchen table next to the window, where coffee and a garden carry the stories: five sisters, a string of pearls, a lifetime of reunions. And, if he listens hard enough, the answer.

Book club fiction. For readers of Ann Patchett's Tom Lake and William Kent Krueger's Ordinary Grace. Complete at 90,000 words.