Want Things Loudly

Martha Keane has spent forty-five years holding her family together with spreadsheets, emergency contacts, and the sheer force of emotional suppression. So when her seventy-one-year-old mother announces she's leaving Martha's father to marry a cruise-ship magician named Sonny, Martha is handed the impossible assignment: fix it. But somewhere between sabotage and wedding planning, Martha begins to wonder if her mother isn't reckless at all—just the only Dugan brave enough to want something out loud.