Always the Last to Know

<b><b><i>Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it.</i></b><br><br><b>From <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point—in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity.</b></b><br><br>The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters-- Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough.<br><br>Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down.<br><br>Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold to come back and care for her beloved dad--and face the love of her life, whose heart she broke, and who broke hers. Now Juliet has to wonder if people will notice that despite her perfect career as a successful architect, her perfect marriage to a charming Brit, and her two perfect daughters, she's spending an increasing amount of time in the closet having panic attacks. <br><br>And now Barb and John will finally have to face what's been going on in their marriage all along.<br><br>From the author of <i>Good Luck with That </i>and<i> Life and Other Inconveniences</i> comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means.