“Okay- tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?” As with his acclaimed debut- Things We Didn’t See Coming- Amsterdam leaps through time- but here he looks backwards- turning his focus to the uneasy peace of one particularly gifted family. Letting them tell their own stories – from a sexually curious teenager to a septuagenarian widower to a middle-aged exile – he captures their secrets over thirty years. The surprising strengths they find reveal how much each person needs in order to change their life – and what the family needs in order to survive.
