Summer We Fell Apart

<p>[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel...a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.<br />--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br /><br /><em>The Summer We Fell Apart </em><em>by newcomer </em>Robin Antalek is a poignant funny and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry--and it marks the debut of a pitch-perfect new voice in contemporary American fiction. Antalek's tale of the trials and many tribulations of the hapless and more than a little dysfunctional Haas family recalls the work of Sue Miller and Ann Beattie--and is a wonderful introduction to a superb writer whose short fiction has been nominated for numerous awards including the Glimmer Train's Family Matter's and Short-Story Award and the Bellingham Review's Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction.<p></p></p>