Nobody Asked Nick

Nick Brenner has survived six Larkin family reunions by keeping his mouth shut and his expectations low. But this year's oceanfront gathering in Maine—a blowout seventieth birthday for Katie's father—is hiding secrets that could detonate his marriage, bankrupt the family empire, and finally force the quietest man in the room to speak up. A mild-mannered history teacher surrounded by loud, mythologized in-laws, Nick has always been treated as furniture. This weekend, the furniture fights back.