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The Ice House by Laura Lee Smith
4.0

Johnny MacKinnon has just been told he has a brain tumor. He's also facing an OSHA lawsuit that could very well be the death blow to his struggling ice factory. His wife Pauline is literally running away from a midlife crisis by exercising and flirting with the corporate attorney assigned to represent the factory in the OSHA appeal. With two weeks to go until his brain surgery, Johnny must decide whether to reach out to his estranged son in Scotland. According to Johnny's ex wife, Corran is supposedly clean and has taken custody of his own infant daughter. Against doctor's orders, Johnny enlists his neighbor's loud-voiced, KISS-loving stepson to accompany him to Scotland for a last attempt at reconciliation with Corran.