“ Wreck is a delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family the
characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich . Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It's
also profound. I couldn't stop reading even though I didn't want it to end.”—J. Courtney
Sullivan New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs “ Wreck is the kind of book that
pulls up a chair pours the wine and dives deep—equal parts hilarious sharp and achingly
sincere. I didn’t just read it—I felt known by it. A luminous laugh-out-loud triumph.”—Alison
Espach New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People The acclaimed bestselling
author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel full of laughter and heart about marriage
family and what happens when life doesn’t go as planned. If you loved Rocky and her family on
vacation on Cape Cod wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your
first meeting with this crew get ready to laugh and cry—and relate.) Rocky still anxious
nostalgic and funny is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their
daughter Willa who's back home after college. Their son Jamie has taken a new job in New
York and Mort Rocky’s widowed father has moved in. It all couldn’t be more ridiculously
normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially
affects them—and with a medical condition that she hopes won’t affect them at all. With her
signature wit and wisdom Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family the heavy
weight of uncertainty and the gnarly fact that people—no matter how much you love them—are not
always exactly who you want them to be.
