Road Trip
Mary Kay Andrews drives two estranged sisters from a Savannah funeral into the back lanes of Ireland, chasing a possibly priceless painting and the family story tangled up in it. Road Trip is warm, funny, and quietly bittersweet, a summer novel about grief, old grudges, and what it costs to stop speaking to the one person who remembers everything.
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Maeve lives by the rules. Therese quit following them somewhere in adolescence and never looked back. Mary Kay Andrews builds the whole novel on that gap, and she's smart enough not to smooth it over. These sisters irritate each other the way only siblings can, with the practiced precision of two people who know exactly which old wound to lean on. Then their mother dies, and the loss forces them back into the same room in Savannah, where the grief that follows isn't tidy or redemptive. It's just awkward. They circle each other like people who once shared a bathroom and now share nothing but a surname and a mysterious inherited painting that might be worth a fortune.
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