Minute details of life. Family drama. Reminded me of Anne Tyler, especially in tone and subject matter. 
 Each scene was turned over on its side to show the perspective of the other characters, again and again. Always useful to be reminded how others do not often view events and actions the way that you intended them to. 
 A good vacation read. 
 Favorite Quotes 
 She preferred to watch it all from a distance, letting the scene pass through her like a ghost. 
 The act of vacationing in beautiful surroundings always made her turn melancholy, as if in the absence of external annoyances to displease her, she suddenly realized her own inferiority... 
 She had never met a family so tied up in their own mythology. 
 She never understood why logic couldn't conquer something as simple and commonplace as love.