Julia Lambert is one of the 'sandwich generation'. As the book opens she is spending the summer in her Maine farmhouse. Her parents are visiting. Her father, a retired neurosurgeon, has always been critical of everyone. Her sweet mother is losing her mind. It isn't going to be an easy visit. She had no idea how bad things were going to get. When her son Steven comes back from his year in the West, Julia finds out that her other son, Jack, is in trouble with drugs. Steven believes that it is a heroin addiction.
Julia will do anything to save him. She enlists the help of her parents, her (remarried) ex-husband, her distant sister and son Steven. The 'cost' of addiction to a family is told in a way that I felt angry and sorry for all of the characters. Well worth reading.
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