Wreck - Catherine Newman

From the NYT bestselling author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS and SANDWICH. Accidents happen - so what happens when they do? ''The kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep—equal parts hilarious, sharp, and achingly sincere. It’s like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it. I didn’t just read it—I felt known by it.'' Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People''A delight... Newman''s prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It''s also profound. I didn''t want it to end.'' J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs_______Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, unpredictable, relatable, family.Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn’t happen to us. And then there’s a secret third column: ‘This could happen to us unless I am very careful/ superstitious/ grateful…’So what happens when ‘this could happen to us’ turns into ‘it really might be me’?When a former classmate of Jamie’s dies in a seemingly random accident, Rocky becomes obsessed. She''s also developed a niggling medical condition that won''t go away. She is still living her best life as the irreverent, funny, unpredictably beating heart of her family. Her father is still his unique, outspoken adorable self; Willa is still prone to bouts of existe
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