The Post family's vacation to Mallorca is, well, complicated. Franny and Jim, married for thirty years, are in the midst of a marital crisis brought on by Jim's affair with a beautiful summer intern and subsequent loss of his job. Son Bobby, a Florida real estate agent with a much older girlfriend, has gotten into financial trouble and is being pressured by his girlfriend, Carmen, to ask his parents for help. Seventeen-year-old Sylvia plans to lose her virginity before returning to the USA to begin college at Brown University and family friend Charles and his husband Lawrence are conflicted about adopting a child. Written from multiple perspectives, Straub's story is an enjoyable panorama of family dysfunction, love, compromise, and forgiveness.
Every family has disagreements, failed communications, secrets, and frustrations. The key to survival is commitment, and the Posts, while enduring some major crises and minor growing pains, are committed to one another. All you need is love! As for the vacation, you'll have to read this to find out how that turns out.
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