Next of Kin: The Novella Edition

THE NOVELLA EDITION Three estranged siblings arrive at their mother's house to surprise her on her birthday, and discover that she has been dead for three years.What begins as a long-overdue family reunion quickly becomes a reckoning. Don, Karen, and Joey turn on one another as grief gives way to accusation, old rivalries resurface, and long-buried memories refuse to remain buried. Their estranged father's arrival only deepens the mystery, and the pain.Moving between the present and the events that fractured the family thirty years earlier, Next of Kin is a darkly comic and deeply compassionate story of guilt, abandonment, and the complicated bonds of blood. As revelations shift blame and a recovered bullet threatens everything they believe about their past, one damaged family must confront what happened, and decide whether anything between them can still be saved.Bawdy, unsettling, savagely funny, and unexpectedly tender, Next of Kin finds humanity in the wreckage families leave behind.