The Nest
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.2
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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems.Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just can’t seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures they’ve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives.This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.
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Author
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Pages
432
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2016-03-22
ISBN
0062414232 9780062414236
Ratings
Google: 3
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"Boring. A lot of whining and just, the characters were annoying "
B S
Brandy Schluterman
"A very intricate and compelling story about a whole family and the financial troubles that all end up intertwined. A bit real for my taste, but story and character development stayed interesting throughout. "
J C
James Cyran
"Enjoyable character study, but ultimately lacks enough punch to make it truly great"
R T
Rebekah Travis
"I picked up The Nest because I loved the cover. After reading the brief description I was intrigued enough to read it. With a slow start I plowed through the book feeling like it had to turn the corner. I had a hard time believing that $2m dollars would be given to an illegal immigrant to shut her up. More believable would be half that amount. I also have a controversial issue with the book but I have this with most new authors these days as they must be told by their editors to have their storylines appeal to the mainstream but instead it makes the book take a turn towards ridiculous. I wished there was more substance to the storyline and even the characters. I may have even liked it more if Leo had more backbone. Not all men are jerks to the very end. But that would have made his character have more depth."
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Joy Hume
"This has to be one of the most overrated books that was hyped up last year. It was all over the place with way too many sub plots. To make it even worse it had an epilogue that wrapped everything up in an overly tidy bow. Everything was a cliche and it felt like it was written solely for the purpose of getting it made into a movie, especially considering the ridiculous epilogue."
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