3.5 stars I found this to be a very compelling and enjoyable read. Certainly at times the story was disquieting and depressing but it could also be heartbreakingly beautiful. Like life. The title does not do it justice as this is not a story of a family falling apart one summer, but of a family t...
Spade died in the winter of their junior year of college and they all returned home for the funeral. Mrs. Spade had been sick as long as Sam could remember, so her death shouldn’t have been that shocking, yet it hit him harder than he expected. He guessed that her illness, always unspecified, had...