In Leah's Wake

A story of love, loss, connection and graceThe Tyler family had the perfect life - until sixteen-year-old Leah decided she didn't want to be perfect anymore. As Leah's rebellion escalates, her parents, Zoe and Will, wage a desperate battle to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future. Meanwhile, her younger sister, Justine, must bear the burden of coping with the destruction her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. In Cortland, Massachusetts, where money and image reign supreme, the Tylers, once town royalty, find themselves isolated, the subject of vicious gossip and speculation. Jerry Johnson, the townie-turned-town-cop who intervenes, may be the only person in town who instinctively understands Dostoevsky's conviction, that "everyone is responsible to all men and for all men and for everything." This mesmerizing debut novel tells the tale of a contemporary American family caught in the throes of adolescent rebellion - a heartbreaking, funny, ultimately redemptive quest for love, independence, connection and grace.