Publisher's Synopsis
The three Brennan siblings are well on their way in the world. Samantha, the youngest, is a ballerina making her way up the ranks of a Russian dance company; her brother Jonah is a grad student studying elephants in the rainforest of Gabon; and the eldest, Gavin, has stayed closer to home, living in L.A. and acting in a cable TV series. Meanwhile their empty-nest parents have fled the suburbs for a new apartment in Chicago and have active new urban lives. This is the moment when all three siblings experience a quarter-life crisis, when events conspire to completely derail their nascent adulthood. Samantha finds she is losing the battle to keep her growing drug addiction from ruining her career; Jonah, in his attempts to protect his beloved elephants, gets in way too deep with a gang of ivory poachers, and Gavin's TV series is cancelled the same day his girlfriend moves out. Their lives having run aground, all three take refuge back home in Chicago for the holidays. Soon they discover that the bonds between siblings are unshakable--especially as they find themselves in the throes of troubles way too profound to share with their parents.
