How does a family cope after loss? Beloved son and brother, Leo, was captured and killed while working in Iraq as a journalist and his parents are bringing his siblings, their families and his widow and son together for a memorial ceremony on the Fourth of July a year later at their idyllic summer home in the Berkshires. But the reunion is all but idyllic. Leo's death has crazed the veneer of normalcy and each character brings extra emotional baggage to the gathering. The family dynamics Henkin illuminates ring true and are as explosive as the backdrop of the fireworks on the cover image. Although I began to feel mired in the middle, I woke up early to finish this great summer novel.
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