Did not expect this book to be so good! Great novel exploring contemporary teenagers, sisters, mothers and daughters, and grief and loss. I cried so much as the author really made me feel the characters feelings and thoughts. The novel tells the story of a family that has a rental business in a beachside town on the Jersey Shore. The two daughters are 16 and 17 and the parents are a seemingly happy couple. Then the husband gets the type of brain tumor that makes him act erratically and extremely out of character. The whole family dynamic changes as they deal with the father.