That Old Cape Magic

Hardcover

1st

Fiction

261

11

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Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father‘s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura‘s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted “The Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that’s now 30 years old and has largely come true. He’d left screen writing and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England College his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they’d moved into an old house full of character; and started a family. Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present and the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura’s, on the coast of Maine, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?

Random House, Inc.

9780375414961

United States

The United States Of America

2009-12-01

1

English

New York NY

~$11.99

2026-03-28

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