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From your award-winning writer of No One IS HERE NOW Except All of Us comes an imaginative book about a rich New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its lot of money - and its own bearings. Labor Day 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coastline of New England, Fern and Edgar - married with three children - are happily preparing for children special birthday when they learn that the unimaginable has happened: There is no more money. More specifically, there's no more money in the house of Fern's recently deceased parents, which, as the sole way to obtain Fern and Edgar's income, had allowed them to live this beautiful, comfortable life despite their professed anti-money ideals. Quickly the once-charmed family unravels. In problems and misunderstandings, Fern and Edgar are each enticed away on independent travels: she on the street trip with a stranger, he with an ill-advised sailing voyage with another woman. The three children are left for days without guardian whatsoever in an improvised Neverland helmed by the tender, witty, and resourceful Cricket, get older nine. Brimming with humanity and wisdom, laughter and bite, and imbued with both whimsical and the deep, Sons and Daughters of Easiness and A great deal is a tale of American wealth, category, family, and freedom contacted by award-winner Ramona Ausubel with a breadth of creativeness and understanding that is fresh, surprising, and exciting.
