Science Fiction & Fantasy Nonfiction Biography & Memoir History. Fiction Thriller & Suspense Mystery & Detective Romance. For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorc. Straub refreshes a conventional plot through droll humor and depth of character. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole. Read 6,849 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. On the plane ride, Franny and Jim sit in business class on the plane while Sylvia sits in coach because Franny does not believe children or teenagers should sit in business class. The Posts rented a house outside of Palma from a woman named Gemma. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated. Bobby, Carmen, and Frannys friend, Charles and his husband, Lawrence, will meet them in Mallorca. While Elsa admires her older sister, Hildy (the most beautiful of the. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. Franny Post, a Manhattan based mother of two, plans a vacation to Mallorca, Spain for her family and best friend well before she realizes that their lives. This is an absolutely lovely novel set in the gilded age of American moviemaking.

An irresistible, deftly observed novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow- about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca.įor the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school.

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