03102cam a2200433 i 4500 1297961975 TxAuBib 20240604120000.0 160714s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016387517 9780062414212 hardcover 0062414216 hardcover TxAuBib rda Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix, author. The nest / Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] ©2016. x, 353 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs joint trust fund, "The Nest" which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest's value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just can't seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the future they've envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. 20240604. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Trusts and trustees Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Brothers and sisters. fast Dysfunctional families. fast Inheritance and succession. fast Trusts and trustees. fast New York (N.Y.) Fiction. New York (State) fast New York. Domestic fiction. fast Fiction. fast Domestic fiction. lcgft https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016387517-b.html Contributor biographical information