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.

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.