Wreck by Catherine Newman PB

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick · Instant New York Times Bestseller

Some books feel like coming home. This is one of them.

From Catherine Newman, the acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich, comes a novel full of laughter and heart—about marriage, family, and what happens when life refuses to go according to plan.

If you fell for Rocky and her family on their Cape Cod vacation, wait until you catch up with them at home, two years later. And if this is your first time meeting the crew? Pull up a chair. You’re about to laugh, cry, and see a little bit of your own family on every page.

Rocky—still anxious, nostalgic, and wonderfully funny—is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, freshly returned from college. Their son Jamie has started a new job in New York, and Rocky’s widowed father, Mort, has moved in. It all couldn’t be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky becomes obsessed with a local accident, and with a medical worry she hopes will stay far away.

With her signature wit and wisdom, Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly truth that the people we love aren’t always exactly who we want them to be.

Critics agree. J. Courtney Sullivan calls it “an absolute joy,” while Alison Espach raves, “I didn’t just read it—I felt known by it. A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph.”

A perfect book club pick. Grab a copy, find a cozy corner, and settle in with the salt air and the sound of the tide. This one’s a keeper.

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