This Is Not About Us

This Is Not About UsA kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American familysteadfast, complicated, begrudging, and lovingfrom the bestselling author of Isola Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own livesdivorces,

I hate boys

she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start

Featuring essential advice on how to get there

and Bustle

helping us to affirm that we are human

now in visible flux

character-driven set pieces

Ten years in the writing

even just for herself

120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state

but he’s literally never around (she hasn’t even met him)

indelible novel of collective grief