Tyler, Anne

Cody, Jenny, and Ezra, who were deserted by their father and raised by their angry mother, go their separate ways but meet again for their mother's funeral.

In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.

Shy, plump teenager Evie Decker's entire life changes when she becomes obsessed with local rock singer Drumstrings Casey.

Beck Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old party planner, suddenly questions her identity and attempts to regain the youthful wisdom she had before she was swept into marriage by a charismatic older divorcee--and father of three--thirty years ago.

Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get over his past reputation.

Tells the story of Duncan Peck, a restless man with a penchant for moving, his wife Justine, a fortune teller, and her grandfather, Daniel, a man who is on a quest to find the brother who disappeared decades earlier.

While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.