She is a wonderful character and I wish I could meet her. Strong yet soft, so independent yet so willing to do something for someone she loves. I would have preferred if the author had kept a few main POVs only.

Just as I was about to become invested in one person’s story, the chapter ends and we’re in a different POV. I had some minor issues with the plot and multiple POVs. The relationship between Leo and Jack is so prominent that I know so many people like that.Īnd that how sometimes leaving is the only way to make things better and allow other people to heal. So many families have been torn apart by money and sibling rivalry/betrayal. This is a very realistic story in the sense that it does happen among real families. How sometimes the person you love and have grown up together for so long could betray you and leave you in disarray. A wonderful story of what money does to families, how it can break siblings apart and shatter dreams. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.

This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional.

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney