Wreck

If you enjoyed following Rocky and her family through their Cape Cod getaway, you’ll be delighted—and maybe a little heartbroken—to return to their lives two years later. (And if you’re meeting them for the first time, prepare for a story that’s tender, hilarious, and deeply human.)

Rocky is still the same anxious, sentimental, sharply funny woman she’s always been, now settled in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Nick. Their daughter, Willa, has moved back home after college; their son, Jamie, is starting a new life in New York; and Rocky’s widowed father, Mort, has joined the household.

Everything is perfectly, absurdly ordinary… until Rocky becomes fixated on a local accident that barely touches their family—and on a possible medical issue she’s terrified might touch them far too closely.

With the warmth, humor, and insight readers love, Catherine Newman delves into the unspoken dynamics that hold families together, the uneasy weight of not knowing what comes next, and the messy truth that the people we adore don’t always match the versions we wish they could be.