and “She hears the front door bang open. Against an earlier promise, Katie adds another finger’s worth of Grand Marnier to her glass, careful to tread quietly across the studio floor. Her glass is streaked black from the paint still on her fingertips. From the kitchen, the blender churns and she envisions the lipstick red potion of creatine powder and fruit punch, one of three daily doses her son guzzles down. Katie listens asC.J. rummages through the refrigerator. She pictures him wolfing down cold cuts and hard boiled eggs, cottage cheese and pickles. He eats like a pregnant woman, chronically hungry. Cabinets frantically open and close. He can’t seem to do anything quietly. and ” On the brink of her fortieth birthday, Katie Olmstead is in no mood to celebrate. Still tending bar to support a stalled art career, she continues to struggle with her temperamental teenage son, C.J., who wants less to do with her every day. When Katie gets word that C.J.’s. estranged father has died and willed C.J. his Harley-Davidson, this drives C.J. and Katie even further apart.With the past parked in the driveway of their New England home, C.J.’s increasing outbursts and Katie’s self- sabotage resurrect memories of Katie’s own troubled childhood. As Katie’s notion of motherhood is tested, her artistic ambitions dwindle and she begins to feel like an imposter.Suddenly faced with a bullying, over- achieving sister she hasn’t spoken to in years, an on-again, off-again boyfriend she just can’t love, and a drinking habit t h a t ‘s spiraling out of control, Katiefinds support in an unlikely place–her eccentric and ailing great uncle, Walter, who watches over them from his room on the third floor.This beautifully written family drama, offers an astutely observed portrait of a broken family striving toward repair. Schiavone extracts humor, compassion, courage, and offers insight into the deeply human determination to survive.

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