Elisabeth Hyde
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Peter, twenty-seven and unemployed, embarks on this journey to avoid his family, while Evelyn, a fifty-year-old biology professor, comes in search of a more visceral life. Ruth and Lloyd, veteran white-water rafters in their seventies, know they will never make this trip again. Jill, a stay-at-home mother with her husband and two boys in tow, craves the luxury of relinquishing control and following someone else's rules. Mitchell and his wife, Lena,...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
A family reunion at Murray Blaire's farm is thrown into chaos when his youngest daughter arrives with a cookbook, that holds the secrets of his wife's ambitions and mysterious choices that led the family from six members to four.
When Murray Blaire invites his three grown children to his New Hampshire farm for a few days, he makes it clear he expects them to keep things pleasant. The rest of his agenda--using Ruth and George to convince their younger...