What an odd book. I have read some of Hewitt’s works before and I don’t know what I was expecting, but not this. We start off with someone sitting by the bedside of someone who may die. And then we shift to a woman (Tessa) taking her two kids (Ben and Katherine) to the Finger Lakes for the summer. Staying in a woebegone place, they end up next to a dynamic house next to a woman (Rebecca) and her three children (Zoe, Max, and Charlotte). […]