Bug Hollow
About This Book
Sally Samuelson was eight when her older brother Ellis, the family's golden boy, vanished the summer he finished high school. He eventually surfaced at Bug Hollow, a rural Northern California commune and one of the last holdouts of the seventies counterculture. He was happy there. Within weeks, a freak accident killed him. Nothing in the Samuelson household turns the same way afterward, least of all once Julia, Ellis's girlfriend from the commune, arrives at their door pregnant. Over the following decades, each family member looks for a way to live with the loss. Sybil, the mother, throws herself into teaching and into dulling her grief. Phil, her husband, finds comfort in a love that began while he was working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia. Katie, the overachieving middle child, returns home after a cancer diagnosis, hoping to patch things up with her mother. Sally, meanwhile, ends up as the main caretaker of Eva, the daughter Ellis never got to meet. This is a family saga that moves across many years, following people who are untidy, loyal and often at odds with one another as secrets, betrayals, chance meetings and disappointments break the family apart and put it back together. Michelle Huneven, author of five previous novels about middle-class Californians dealing with addiction, difficult love affairs and heavy losses while trying to live decently, writes the Samuelsons with precision and deep sympathy. Bug Hollow was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Oprah Daily.
ISBN: 9780593834893
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