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A review by spaceonthebookcase
You Only Call When You're in Trouble by Stephen McCauley
4.0
You Only Call When You're in Trouble by Stephen McCauley peeled back the layers of a family in a perpetual state of chaos.
Cecily was raised by her single mother, Dorothy, and uncle, Tom. Dorothy is a free spirited wild child that never left the Hippie era behind and Tom is an environmentally conscious architect that specializes in tiny homes. Despite his success, providing for Cecily has cost him nearly everything. When Dorothy decides to open up a wellness retreat with has-been self-help author Fiona, a secret comes out that changes the dynamic of the family.
Cecily tries hard to be everything her mother is not, but when she makes a questionable choice in her career, she finds out that she is more like her mother than she realized. While Tom must make peace with where he is in life and his relationship with Dorothy.
There is not a single character in You Only Call When You're in Trouble that isn't deeply flawed, which provides a level of realism that is equally relatable and unsettling. The author chose to tie up some lose ends with the ending while leaving, perhaps, one of the biggest questions unanswered. While I do feel it fit where the book went, it irked me just a bit to not know how the investigation finished.
Thank you Henry Holt Books for the gifted ARC & Macmillian Audio for the gifted ALC.
Cecily was raised by her single mother, Dorothy, and uncle, Tom. Dorothy is a free spirited wild child that never left the Hippie era behind and Tom is an environmentally conscious architect that specializes in tiny homes. Despite his success, providing for Cecily has cost him nearly everything. When Dorothy decides to open up a wellness retreat with has-been self-help author Fiona, a secret comes out that changes the dynamic of the family.
Cecily tries hard to be everything her mother is not, but when she makes a questionable choice in her career, she finds out that she is more like her mother than she realized. While Tom must make peace with where he is in life and his relationship with Dorothy.
There is not a single character in You Only Call When You're in Trouble that isn't deeply flawed, which provides a level of realism that is equally relatable and unsettling. The author chose to tie up some lose ends with the ending while leaving, perhaps, one of the biggest questions unanswered. While I do feel it fit where the book went, it irked me just a bit to not know how the investigation finished.
Thank you Henry Holt Books for the gifted ARC & Macmillian Audio for the gifted ALC.