What would you do if your husband, the father of your children, carried on a months-long affair with a younger woman? What would you do if the woman wrote to you, sending you a box full of explicit texts and chat transcripts detailing the things her husband had wanted to do to her?
What would you do if your children found the box and read everything?
In Julia Pierpont’s poignant debut novel, every choice made after this moment further fractures a broken family’s future into seemingly infinite possible paths. The husband, Jack, has promised his wife, Deb, he’d end a fling with a much younger girl. The arrival of the box, and its discovery by confused Kay, 11, and furious Simon, 15, blows up the couple’s tenuous truce and sets the family spinning. In the crucial weeks that follow, the family’s fate hangs in the balance; even the smallest decisions have the potential to define the outcome.
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