Maybe Freud didn't know the answer to what women want, but Elizabeth Berg certainly does.

----USA Today

Berg knows her characters intimately.., showing them with compassion, humor, and an illuminating generosity.., she gets under their skin and leaves the reader with an indelible impression of lives challenged and changed.

----The Seattle Times

Savvy, wry, and sharply observant... Berg's graceful and deceptively simple prose is laced with clear-eyed insights ... deft and inspiring'

---The Denver Post

Every year, Laura Bartone and her siblings return to their parents' home outside Minneapolis to attend the state fair. She looks forward to the annual reunion with a mixture of excitement and wariness. But this year, things are different. As soon as she arrives, Laura realises that something is not right with her sister Caroline. On their first evening together, Caroline confronts Laura and their brother Steve with devastating allegations about their mother. Taken aback and incredulous, the siblings are unable to reconcile their different perceptions of their childhood until a sudden tragedy forces them to face the past, their own culpability and their need for love and forgiveness.