The Nest
- Author: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
- Narrator: Mia Barron
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 11:07:30
Synopsis
A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems.
Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just can’t seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures they’ve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives.
This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.
Chapters
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021 Chapter 18
Duration: 14min -
022 Chapter 19
Duration: 08min -
023 Chapter 20
Duration: 19min -
024 Chapter 21
Duration: 14min -
025 Chapter 22
Duration: 20min -
026 Chapter 23
Duration: 19min -
027 Chapter 24
Duration: 09min -
028 Chapter 25
Duration: 02min -
029 Chapter 26
Duration: 05min -
030 Chapter 27
Duration: 08min -
031 Chapter 28
Duration: 14min -
032 Chapter 29
Duration: 19min -
033 Chapter 30
Duration: 01min -
034 Chapter 31
Duration: 36min -
035 Chapter 32
Duration: 12min -
036 Chapter 33
Duration: 08min -
037 Chapter 34
Duration: 03min -
038 Chapter 35
Duration: 06min -
039 Part III Chapter 36
Duration: 12min -
040 Chapter 37
Duration: 08min