Cai Emmons

"A new mother is bewildered when her house appears to belong to a stranger; a young artist must look past stereotypes to what really matters; a filmmaker visiting a childhood friend with dementia realizes how quickly shared history vanishes; an isolated young woman forms a manipulative friendship with a mother whose daughter has died; a middle-aged office manager discovers she isn't central in the lives of her adoring young male employees. These women's...

"Set amid California's wildfire season, a vivid and magical novel following a family in crisis thrust on a collision course with the world around them that has an outcome beyond their wildest imaginings... When Lu and George Barnes drop their only daughter, Pippa, off at college, they return to their Sonoma home to find that their paths have diverged. Confronted with an empty nest, Lu's increasing dissatisfaction with their materialistic lives becomes...