The Orchard House

Marilyn Blaney has spent her whole life ten miles from the house she grew up in, holding it together while everyone else left. Her father, a retired judge felled by a stroke, refuses help of any kind. Then her brother Curtis returns after twenty-five years of silence, trailing a sixteen-year-old son no one in Grainfield, Kansas has ever met. Three acres, one dying orchard, and a family that can barely speak. Something has to give.